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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by smoldesu on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:55AM (#33022437)
> It's a bit of a shame that the RAM is so limited on all those platforms

As long as you didn't get one of the single-channel SSD models, it would make plenty of sense to give yourself a 16 gig swapfile (or something of the sort).

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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by jlokier on Thursday September 29, 2022 @12:39PM (#33023210)
MacOS creates swapfiles automatically as needed (in /var/vm). It will allocate a lot more space to swap than the size of RAM, if it determines that's useful.

It's actually a problem, if you're low on SSD space the filesystem can fill up with swapfiles while the system is still reasonably functional because the SSDs are fast enough. Then because of an APFS design fault, sometimes it isn't possible to delete any files to free up space. It says "out of disk space" when you try to delete a file.

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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by ask_b123 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:49PM (#33025344)
Yes; I have to restart my computer whenever that happens.
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