We are often told how advanced memory management is. After all, the engineers at Apple must know better than the rest of us, right?
But consider this: every time you download anything (say 10 movies @ 4 GB each), decompress something, make previews of an extensive set of RAW images in Bridge, or in general do anything with data, it is all cached in RAM.
When the cache has filled up the memory, mac os starts to compress apps, usually the countless useless demons. And after some threshold, it also starts to swap to disk. It is hell-bent on preserving cached files for some reason.
So please, convince me how this can be more efficient than just dump the garbage cache from data that will usually not be reused in any meaningful way. Why prioritize useless old cached files before app memory?
Real memory management would dump the cache before doing anything else.
But consider this: every time you download anything (say 10 movies @ 4 GB each), decompress something, make previews of an extensive set of RAW images in Bridge, or in general do anything with data, it is all cached in RAM.
When the cache has filled up the memory, mac os starts to compress apps, usually the countless useless demons. And after some threshold, it also starts to swap to disk. It is hell-bent on preserving cached files for some reason.
So please, convince me how this can be more efficient than just dump the garbage cache from data that will usually not be reused in any meaningful way. Why prioritize useless old cached files before app memory?
Real memory management would dump the cache before doing anything else.