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Re:Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory manageme... by cellularmitosis on Thursday August 02, 2012 @02:34PM (#4330233)
The problem is that OS X appears to favor swapping over evicting file caches. This ends up creating a situation where no matter how much physical RAM you add to your system, you still end up seeing frequent swap-induced beach balls.
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