Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro

Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by Aeolun on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:37PM (#29145043)

> My main point here - let’s not pretend your 4GB machine is being used to do any intense local work.

That depends entirely on what you consider intense local work. Just because you are not compiling doesn’t mean running your 15 microservice stack locally is not intense.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by monsieurbanana on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:51PM (#29145116)

Any memory intensive work. I thought his meaning was clear.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by nerdponx on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:45PM (#29145720)

4 GB is maybe small nowadays, but memory-intensive is relative.

I'd argue that _most_ programmers or even data analysts don't need more than 8 GB to perform their actual work.

But realistically they need 16+ anyway because of opening 200 browser tabs, memory-heavy IDEs, etc. 32 or 64 is nice for sure, but definitely not needed for actual "work" workloads for the most part.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by eru on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:36AM (#29174450)

Having many browser tabs open (for research) is part of the 'actual work'.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by lilyball on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:22AM (#29147133)

They need 16+ anyway because of running 2 or 3 Electron apps.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by smoldesu on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:39PM (#29145693)

Memory intensive work wasn't the topic of conversation. GGP's comment was about how often he had to reboot his laptop despite it's immense memory budget, not about how much faster it was at performing memory-intensive tasks.

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