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Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it by vikramkr on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:43PM (#38222769)
Swap memory use is worse than actual memory use. If it just reserving a big block and not using it then fine whatever but if it's using a lot of swap that means ram is probably bottlenecking you since swap is slow.
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Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it by solarkraft on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:40PM (#38226033)
It's of course slower than real RAM, but Apple are using pretty fast SSDs and possibly a novel model of swapping, making it effectively pretty good (certainly not perfect!).
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Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it by Rebelgecko on Saturday November 11, 2023 @02:30PM (#38233654)
Doesn't swapping to SSD make the laptop EOL come even quicker?
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