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Re:Who's to Blame for the 16 GB RAM Limit on the New MacBook... by purple-dragon on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:57PM (#12843287)
Except for when macOS tells me that it has run out of RAM and that I need to close some applications...
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Re:Who's to Blame for the 16 GB RAM Limit on the New MacBook... by pwinnski on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:36PM (#12847463)
That used to happen to me weekly or so, but then I switched the majority of my browser workload from Chrome to Safari, and I haven't had that issue in the several months since.

I don't use a lot of tools that embed Chromium, though, so I'm not entirely sure just a browser switch would keep you from hitting memory pressure warnings.

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Re:Who's to Blame for the 16 GB RAM Limit on the New MacBook... by mhmiles on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:07AM (#12843346)
I think that only happens when your swap file takes up all available space on your drive
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Re:Who's to Blame for the 16 GB RAM Limit on the New MacBook... by purple-dragon on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:09AM (#12843359)
Perhaps, but that's not the case here. I have plenty of available disk space.
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