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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:48:12 -0000 (UTC)
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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>>> Take a look at my Cinnamon taskbar:  https://i.imgur.com/yPGDm6a.png
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So nothing a Mac Mini with a base configuration couldn't easily handle.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Incorrect, I use beyond 16 GB RAM and even puke out a little over 32
>>>>> at times having these tiny uses of swap.
>>>> 
>>>> Funny you won't show it, huh?
>>> 
>>> I'm including the use of cache in overall RAM use, the use of swap
>>> when all 32 GB is used up to demonstrate that I really need the
>>> resources I've provided my system.
>> 
>> Not at all. It just means the OS is being efficient and using the fastest
>> local storage available to it as much as possible. RAM is mostly used for
>> caches. 
>> 
>> If you were brave enough to show your memory usage you'd see it for
>> yourself. 
> 
> 
> I have been monitoring it for months, I know how it goes.  I have
> reached the point of the OS using swap, when main RAM and cache
> saturated the 32 GB.

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