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		zarzavat on March 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip That sounds like she is running out of disk space, not RAM.

meatmanek on March 5, 2024 [–]

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted -- macOS uses available disk space as swap, and if your disk is full (and thus has no more room for swap) then it will pop up this dialog.

Repulsion9513 on March 5, 2024 | [–]

If you're swapping you need more RAM.

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