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Memory Usage on a MacBook M1

4 pointsby craftomanover 2 years ago

3 comments

MisterSandmanover 2 years ago
I&#x27;d point out that RAM behaviour on laptops, especially Mac&#x27;s, has moved closer to phone RAM behaviour. Generally speaking, apps seem to expand to consume as much RAM as possible and reduce when new apps come in. It&#x27;s not like this is new, but my point is that there&#x27;s a good chance Spotify would still run the same with 600 MB RAM, and that all of those apps would still work the same if you had half as much RAM.<p>Not trying to sympathize the joke that is Electron apps, but just wanted to point out that RAM usage discussion isn&#x27;t as simple as it used to be anymore. My Mac uses 12&#x2F;16GB RAM pretty much constantly regardless of what I&#x27;m doing.
literallyroyover 2 years ago
I wonder what extensions are being used for vscode. I have IntelliJ (far heavier, actual IDE) open and active using 3.38GB of ram.
raszover 2 years ago
Dude runs 4 browsers simultaneously and complains about memory usage.