Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by vesrah on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:46AM (#26915922)

Is the the 8GB model? I had the same issue with my workload and found that it was always under high memory pressure, upgrading to a 16GB model fixed it for me.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by sillysaurusx on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:51AM (#26915979)

It’s the 16GB. The memory pressure is indeed the issue. I find it hilarious that Apple accidentally inverted their LRU into an MRU and constantly swaps for no reason, yet it’s still so fast that nobody even noticed during QA. Mine has already read/wrote 48TB in the first three weeks; at this rate the SSD will be dead in three years.

(If you haven’t looked into SSDGate yet, be sure to check your smartmon to see whether you’re affected.)

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by msie on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:05PM (#26917425)

This guy seems to have pinpointed the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyMCoQmsv-I

The problem is unoptimized apps running on Rosetta2.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by astrange on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:02PM (#26919165)

Emulated apps don’t use more memory. It’s more likely Activity Monitor calculates their usage wrong, it doesn’t show very accurate numbers in the first place.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by diroussel on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:28AM (#26925568)

Any sources for that. I did a quick web search but didn’t find any conclusions to the saga.

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