macOS is a fricking piece of shit, I have being have to use this terrible fricking OS, it is barely more usable than Windows(because it has a terminal), but holy shit man, what kind of memory leak is this???
macOS is a fricking piece of shit, I have being have to use this terrible fricking OS, it is barely more usable than Windows(because it has a terminal),...
that's just how macos functions. if you didn't spend thousands of dollars extra for more than 8gb of RAM then macos also reduces the lifespan of the SSD due to constant writing of virtual ram.
This, and if you're too poor to afford more than the pathetic 256GB of storage on the base model, they'll ship you an extremely slower storage chip just because you're poor, and poor people ain't welcome at the applel cult.
So I was right claiming that the entry level version of Apple computers are not really meant to be used and their only purpose is to make them look less expensive in comparison tables. People told me I was dumb and 8GB on MacOS was like 16GB on Windows and Linux.
It's impossible to know everything. But now you have learned another important lesson, anon-kun~
The kernel is FOSS if you want to improve it.
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
People are actually improving Tim Apple's kernel for FREE??
hmm sounds like spotlight is indexing.
Try disabling it.
"it's not a bug, it's a feature"
But yeah, low end macs don't feel as snappy as they were 15 years ago
OP here, this is a Macbook Pro with 32 GB RAM and M2 Pro, this is not even a poorgay macbook, yet it fricking swaps because of docker containers etc and the memory leaks
preview is always using 5gb of memory what a leaky piece of shit!!!
Why is it using swap memory when 6gb is free.
What is the default swappiness in macos? You might be able to change it.
Why is WindowServer using 1.8 GB? Such a garbage OS.
Probably it has the VRAM memory included. Though, when I run nvidia-smi on my Linux desktop with KDE, I see just 800MB VRAM usage, Applel having huge skill issues lol
??
probably an apple silicon issue
No, just the default macOS swapiness is very high. If you can fill 60% of the memory, it will start swapping
the WindowServer thing is a moronic bug
post from actual apple dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401681
use btop or htop and you'll see it's actually not using that much memory
idk what kernel_task is but probably will go away if you reboot
>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401681
It is saying CPU usage, not memory
true but I think the bugs are related since other system monitors show different ram usage
I just stopped using activity monitor and use btop instead
Rollback to Catalina, it's your only hope at redemption
Last 5 major updates have cucked the OS so much. No benefit in them unless you like jumping between your Mac and IPad 1 second faster like regard.
M-shit unified memory leak
>idle macos
>ps aux | wc -l
>375
>debian with chromium on
>ps aux | wc -l
>121
kek, bloated piece of shit
Are you sure you're up to date? There was a version of macOS that leaked memory like a submarine screen door, but it was usually a random process that got hit (not always kernel). I believe it has been fixed. I don't see this on any of my machines.