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wincyyesterday at 3:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

My wife’s 8GB MacBook Air crashed yesterday with Firefox and Find My open and nothing else because of running out of RAM, so, sort of, but they’re not magic. (Find My was using 3GB of memory!)


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astrangeyesterday at 8:09 PM

If you mean it showed the out of memory dialog, that wouldn't be caused by an app using 3GB. The dialog shows up at ~48GB swap space used on an 8GB Mac, or when you're out of disk space and can't write a swap file.

nozzlegearyesterday at 4:03 PM

So Firefox was using 5gb? There's your problem.

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