Unified memory is God King. Lots of masturbatory behind the scene for those tech enthusiasts.
"8GB base model in 2023 for normal browsing with Firefox is completely enough" - random youtuber
Unified memory is God King. Lots of masturbatory behind the scene for those tech enthusiasts.
14 Comments
fluffy@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 3y
What’s “normal” browsing varies wildly between people.
FoxBJK@midwest.social · 11 pts · 3y
Posts like these never include any details that we can draw meaningful conclusions from.
slmcrs@programming.dev · 14 pts · 3y
if you have ram available, it should be used. otherwise it’s wasted
lossykittens@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 3y
Are you sleeping your unused tabs? That appears to be the issue here, no?
RandomlyRight@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
You can do that in Firefox?
lossykittens@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 3y
Indeed! I’m not positive but I think this may help; check out the Firefox section. There are also extensions that’ll help.
https://www.popsci.com/diy/tab-snoozing-guide/
HollandJim@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Maybe that works on a M1/M2-series processor, where the ultrawide bus means all ram works as fast as typical memory, but I wouldn’t want to even consider this on Intel.
Deemo@bookwormstory.social · 3 pts · 3y
Meanwhile.... 🤡
bamboo@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
This is due to shared memory being counted for every process sharing it though, I think. If 20 processes share 1GB of memory, that is only 1 GB of memory, but macOS might report it as 20GB.
AwesomeSteve@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Man..., at least you are running miscellaneous apps, I just use Firefox and had to close a few tabs to get back to green bar on memory pressure...
Deemo@bookwormstory.social · 1 pts · 3y
In my case it's only had it happen to me 3 times over the course of 1-2 years. It wasn't consistent in running wild.
alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y
8 GB and constantly swapping. Firefox is the new emacs
Byereddithellolemmy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Firemin
Bootheal0179@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I finally increased the Ram to 8Gb on my in laws 2009 iMac core 2duo, it’s pretty snappy again.