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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.
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