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by Derbasti
4990 days ago
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On many occasions, I tried to load some data set that would not fit in memory. Usually on accident. If I do that on Windows or Linux, the computer becomes slow, I cancel the operation, and everything is well again. Same with OS X and an SSD. On OS X with an HDD, the computer becomes completely unresponsive with no recovery beyond a forced reboot. This happened particularly frequently with virtual machines and/or Matlab, both of which can very easily exhaust any amount of memory. But maybe no one else is doing stuff like that. |
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I used to do a lot of heavy VM work on OSX - and back in the early days of VMWare Fusion v1 and later. I have never had the OS become unstable due to a storage bottleneck/thrashing.
Not that OSX is unbreakable, but it's been a whole lot better/more stable than my experience with Windows. At least on the Mac, a large chunk of the drivers are supported by the folks who wrote the OS.