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asdff on March 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: New MacBook Air

I'm running firefox and mail in macOS, and 12gb are in use. The OS keeps things loaded in memory if you have it to spare.

thiht on March 20, 2020 | [–]

Right now on macOS I'm running Firefox, Outlook, 2 VSCode instances, Postman, 1 Electron chat app and another chat app and I'm under 5GB. Uptime 4 days.

jfkebwjsbx on March 20, 2020 | [–]

Cache does not count when discussing memory requirements.

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