Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel...
by coldtea on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:29AM
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>As a matter of fact, most times you don't even need to fill swap before MacOS runs out of memory: you just need to fool the OS into thinking the memory pressure is high enough to warrant GC.
I do DAWs (with tons of VSTs and sample libraries), VMs (vagrant, docker) and NLEs (up to 4K), but usually not at the same time, and I've never run out of memory in macOS ever in ~20 years. 16GB is the largest amount of RAM I ever had in them.
How often does this mythical "macOS runs out of memory" thing happen?
>MacOS is notorious for having one of the most asinine memory management schemes in the history of software
I do DAWs (with tons of VSTs and sample libraries), VMs (vagrant, docker) and NLEs (up to 4K), but usually not at the same time, and I've never run out of memory in macOS ever in ~20 years. 16GB is the largest amount of RAM I ever had in them.
How often does this mythical "macOS runs out of memory" thing happen?
>MacOS is notorious for having one of the most asinine memory management schemes in the history of software
Citation needed.