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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by kalleboo on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:39AM (#23465689)
I guess Linux is different from macOS since I just had this situation last week. I wrote a quick app to generate a graphic and let it run in the background, noticed my machine was feeling a bit sluggish (but still totally usable for web browsing etc) and noticed my app had a memory leak and was using 100 GB of RAM and climbing on a 32 GB system. I could easily quit the app using the regular GUI.

NVMe SSDs are fantastic.

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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by gok on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:28AM (#23467474)
macOS has also has Jetsam (like the Linux OOM killer but much more aggressive) and swap-to-compression, so you're not as often swapping to disk as you'd think.
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Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions by kalleboo on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:43AM (#23467607)
My app was leaking uncompressed 12 MP photo buffers and the swap file was over 70 GB, so in this case it was definitely swapping to hell
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