Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@uliwitness Still had 20 GB free with the swap file. Total private memory in use was way less than the physical RAM that I have."

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 4 Nov 2014

@mmunz Yeah, it takes about 150 MB when I launch it and then gradually increases to GBs even if I'm not using it.
Simone Manganelli ‏@simX 4 Nov 2014

@mjtsai, @mmunz — Why shouldn't an app aggressively cache stuff until your memory is "full"? Why is using otherwise inactive memory bad?
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 4 Nov 2014

@simX @mmunz Because it's not otherwise inactive. All of my memory is in use right now.
Simone Manganelli ‏@simX 4 Nov 2014

@mjtsai, @mmunz — My hunch is yes, Safari and iTunes are pieces of shit, but I remember many complaining about OS X 10.0's "bad" mem usage
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 4 Nov 2014

@simX @mmunz Important stuff will get paged in, let it swap out the other stuff. Yet, in practice, rebooting always makes things faster.
Simone Manganelli ‏@simX 4 Nov 2014

@mjtsai, @mmunz — Point is you want immediate results, so restarting is a nice placebo. But over long term, aggressive caching saves time.
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 6 Nov 2014

@simX @mmunz My Mac just "ran out of application memory" because Mail was using 61 GB of Memory (but "only" 3.23 GB of Private Memory).
Rosyna Keller ‏@rosyna 6 Nov 2014

@mjtsai @simX @mmunz You ran out of free space on your boot volume?
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 6 Nov 2014

@rosyna @simX @mmunz Nope, still had 20 GB of space on the SSD, so I'm not sure why the OS decided to pause all my apps.
Ghoulie Ghost Terror ‏@uliwitness 6 Nov 2014

@mjtsai Swap file ate up the remaining 20GB? That's how it usually works for me. Some leaky app filling the HD with swap.

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@uliwitness Still had 20 GB free with the swap file. Total private memory in use was way less than the physical RAM that I have.

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