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by justinator 957 days ago
I have a 16G M1 and that popup about the system running out of memory comes up frequently. I would do terrible, terrible things to be able to upgrade the RAM. My 2014 Macbook Pro had 16G!
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coldtea 956 days ago
I have a 16G M1, and have never ever seen it in those 2 years I have it. I do programming and video editing, and run VMs headless to which I give like 2-4G.
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justinator 956 days ago
Lucky. I have to restart perhaps once a day/every other day as the UI becomes unresponsive. Sometimes putting the computer to sleep means it restarts by itself, or I have force power it back on.
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coldtea 956 days ago
With headless VMs with a few GB, or some huge-ass VMs?

Could it be something unrelated, like Spotlight getting stuck, or some hungry app? I guess you've consulted Activity Monitor and such

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dmvdoug 956 days ago
I have an 8GB M1 and I have never seen that popup.

Our use cases likely vary.

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justsomehnguy 956 days ago
> I have an 8GB M1 and I have never seen that popup.

Does that mean 8GB M1 == 16GB x86?

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dmvdoug 956 days ago
No, it means that I have an 8GB M1 and have never encountered the low memory popup.
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zarzavat 956 days ago
Did you turn off swap, or is your disk almost full?
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paulddraper 956 days ago
Are you running a VM?

That's the only way I can use 17,179,869,184 bytes of memory.

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justinator 956 days ago
No. The largest memory hogs are FireFox, Photoshop, and Lightroom Classic.
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piva00 956 days ago
That's rather odd to be eating all your RAM, I use my personal M1 16GB with Firefox, Affinity Photo and Capture One all the time to process RAW, never had issues running out of memory. Neither when producing music on Ableton Live and/or Bitwig.
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paulddraper 956 days ago
That's surprising.

36 megapixels RAW is like 50 megabytes.

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