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egorfineyesterday at 6:13 PM1 replyview on HN

no it's reading, not writing


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ElectricalUniontoday at 12:09 AM

Using macos on low memory regimes will make it use disk-based swap.

For example, a Macbook Neo (so in theory, something with around 4GiB of free RAM lying around) might eat around 900GB of writes a day while not doing much at all, because it's basically on low on RAM and swapping all the time.