Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-03-25 11:54, Joel wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
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the [Linux] OS us[ed] swap, when main RAM and cache
saturated the 32 GB.

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That doesn't actually mean you *need* 32GB.

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Oh sure, I'll just rely on swap!  Great, back to the 1990s, heh.

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What you showed was 25GB usage and some of that was caching.
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You were nowhere NEAR needing swap space.

  But if I *didn't* have the whole 32 GB, Alan, the RAM would get
saturated rather quickly, leading to use of swap.