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by crazygringo 244 days ago
That's... not how programs usually work. You open something, it's in memory.

Yeah, you shouldn't have 200 PDFs open.

On the other hand, the good news is your Mac still runs fine, consuming 40GB of "memory" even if you've only got 8GB. Since it's just putting it all out to swap on a fast SSD. So why even complain?

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> That's... not how programs usually work. You open something, it's in memory.

What are you talking about? UPDF does it just fine https://updf.com/updf-mac-user-guide/preferences-mac/#3

> Yeah, you shouldn't have 200 PDFs open.

Nah.

> On the other hand, the good news is your Mac still runs fine, consuming 40GB of "memory" even if you've only got 8GB. Since it's just putting it all out to swap on a fast SSD. So why even complain?

I'm aware, however it only works like this in theory. In practice, if the Preview gets to like 60GB, the whole system will get slow until I close it.