Why does my Apple Sillicon Mac with 32gb of RAM use (or even create?!) a swapfile, when 20gb is still unused/"free"?
Why can I not just enter a simple command to entirely-disable swapfile, like with Linux's:
>>>>swapoff -a
Seems kind of silly, unless the point is intentionally to wear-down the SSD's lifespan.
Having a GUI swapfile-disable system preference would be awesome. It would also be awesome if Apple finally abandoned this system settings/layout "phase" – it's still word-salad (compared to decades of preference panes).
#Apple #Feedback #swapfile
The principle of a paging system is that main memory is just a cache for secondary memory, and the concept of "free memory" ideally rather means something like "memory that can be quickly reclaimed for another purpose". Sometimes anonymous memory will be of less us occupying main memory at some given time than would be letting cached file contents take their place.