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by nowahe 1473 days ago
On macos, whenever I have a high memory pressure, coupled to a large swap usage, I find that the system becomes really sensitive to I/O intensive tasks.

If I start an IO intensive task (eg a recursive grep or a backup), any task that involves pulling data from the swap (eg switching desktops) gets significantly slower, and I often see the dreaded beach ball