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Swap used 5GB - Can someone help me figure this thing out. I only used safari, notion and yt music. (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Mohit-Vishwakarma@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch
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[–] jamieg106@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you noticing any kind of performance hit? If not it doesn’t matter and forget about it!

[–] lotus49@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Most of the people commenting appear to have no idea how Unix memory management works. You are spot on. You should worry about it if it actually has a noticeable effect.

Looking at memory utilisation doesn't tell you anything useful if your system is running normally.