Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

On 2025-04-04 17:21, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

https://i.imgur.com/bNZVr8U.png

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You've just shown that you DO NOT need 32GB of RAM...
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(and that Linux isn't smart enough to count RAM in base-2).

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https://i.imgur.com/4jItMI0.png
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As you can see, today, I have puked out a little into swap.

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Dude: give it up.
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You've got 33.5 decimal gigabytes of RAM.
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19.2GB is in use with the other 14.3GB used for cache.
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And 3.7MB...
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...one HUNDREDTH of one percent of it...
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...is swapped out...
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...and you think that's a solid argument?
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Linux has 14.3GB used for caching and for some reason chooses to swap a
tiny, TINY fraction of data rather than use a little less for cache...
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...and you think you're proving something good?

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So let me get this straight, your argument is that cache isn't
actually needed?

I'm arguing that you've yet to show your system actually using close to
all the RAM you say you need.

  It's not using it *for main RAM*, but including cache, it literally is
using it all as the image shows, requiring the use of swap.

Nope.
For whatever reason, Linux is prioritizing caching over keeping data in RAM to avoid swapping out.