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In defence of swap: common misconceptions
macOS has also has Jetsam (like the Linux OOM killer but much more aggressive) and swap-to-compression, so you're not as often swapping to disk as you'd think.
kalleboo
on June 9, 2020
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My app was leaking uncompressed 12 MP photo buffers and the swap file was over 70 GB, so in this case it was definitely swapping to hell
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