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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by runeks on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:43AM (#26914147)
I think it’s reasonable to assume that OP was talking about user space applications, not kernel disk cache.
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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by astrange on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:37PM (#26918933)
Adding up the memory use of apps isn’t actually a good way to calculate RAM needs though. It undercounts (because file caching matters too) and overcounts (because many things are fine swapped out).
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