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Why does open source take up so much memory space on Macos (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have macbook air with M1 chip, I wish I could change to linux but unfortunately I cant so I try to stick as much as possible to using open source on macos. But i cant understand why FOSS apps take up so much space in memory. I'm even getting messages that says that I dont have space left in memory and i must close apps, and I thought that chip M1 was enough with 8gb of ram. I send a pic of my memory usage.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My first guess would be emulation for apps that do not run on aarm by default.

A lot of OSS devs don’t want to spend time supporting a closed architecture. Especially some of the more privacy and openness focused apps that you’re running.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

This is what I'd wager. I remember reading that apps using Rosetta (is that what it's called ?) take up more resources.