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by friendlygrammar 3519 days ago
>As I type this I'm running at 15.25GB used

Yes, the OS will use as much memory as possible, this doesn't mean you are hitting memory limits or performance bottlenecks.
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purple-dragon 3519 days ago
Except for when macOS tells me that it has run out of RAM and that I need to close some applications...
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pwinnski 3518 days ago
That used to happen to me weekly or so, but then I switched the majority of my browser workload from Chrome to Safari, and I haven't had that issue in the several months since.

I don't use a lot of tools that embed Chromium, though, so I'm not entirely sure just a browser switch would keep you from hitting memory pressure warnings.

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mhmiles 3518 days ago
I think that only happens when your swap file takes up all available space on your drive
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purple-dragon 3518 days ago
Perhaps, but that's not the case here. I have plenty of available disk space.
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