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A comment on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by jackjeff on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:27PM (#28911238)
Can’t answer for music, but as a developer a sure way to waste a lot of RAM is to run a bunch of virtual machines, containers or device simulators.

I have 32GB, so unless I’m careless everything usually fits in memory without swapping. If you got over things get slow and you notice.

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by 00deadbeef on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:24PM (#28911956)
Same, I tend to get everything in 32GB but more and more often I'm going over that and having things slow down. I've also nuked an SSD in a 16GB MBP due to incredibly high swap activity. It would make no sense for me to buy another 32GB machine if I want it to last five years.
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by miohtama on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:46PM (#28912222)
Don’t run Chrome and Slack at the same time :)
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by arvinsim on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:19AM (#28915649)
So run Slack inside Chrome? :)
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by xcskier56 on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:56PM (#28912310)
How do you track the swap activity? What would you call “high” swap activity?
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by discordance on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:57PM (#28913363)
Open Activity Monitor, select Memory and there's "Swap used" down the bottom
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by secondcoming on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:23PM (#28913115)
My laptop has 128GB for running several VMs that build C++ code, and Slack.
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