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Eh? I have a 16gig iMac and am very lazy about closing apps I’ve never had any memory problems and don’t even think about it other then running something like Adobe Premier Pro for video editing.

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Yeah, see my sibling comment. I don't know what the person you're replying to has done to their system, but I am very lazy with that too. Not at the moment, but most of the time I have 3 user accounts logged in simultaneously with their respective apps running.

Memory has never really been an issue for me, unless I try to `grep` a very (VERY) big file or something. Which makes sense, right?

I suppose you have less Electron apps open :) I'm using 12 Gb now (1.53 in swap) with Firefox and several communication apps open. Fortunately atm all my works is in Terminal.

Thing is, when I have 3 or 4 Electron apps open, they are still not using 100% "real" memory - it's all compressed if the need arises. What other apps that you use, use Electron?

MacOS treats unused memory as wasted memory. It does its best to keep memory filled. So a lot of that 12Gb is likely to be 'just in case' stuff. What does the memory pressure graph look like in Activity Monitor?

The thing is, when I run an applicaion that allocates 8 G on top of that, it compresses like 7 G, memory pressure turns brown, it goes 3-4 G into swap and sometimes the app crashes :)

So the legend has a grain of truth, but you can only stretch it so much.

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