12.2 eating more ram?

[jgbr]

I am starting to wonder if it only effects people who had 12.X installed from base when they bought a new machine. I am curious if a complete system wipe and reinstall with 12.3 (or presumably later) makes a difference.

 

[skviki]

I am starting to wonder if it only effects people who had 12.X installed from base when they bought a new machine. I am curious if a complete system wipe and reinstall with 12.3 (or presumably later) makes a difference.

I thought so at first after reinstalling when no "windowserver process could be spotted at the top of memory users list. But this morning I found it hogging a hefty 1,3 GB first place on the list. A couple of weeks after wiping the ssd clean and reinstalling everything from scratch with the newest OS version.

 

[jgbr]

I thought so at first after reinstalling when no "windowserver process could be spotted at the top of memory users list. But this morning I found it hogging a hefty 1,3 GB first place on the list. A couple of weeks after wiping the ssd clean and reinstalling everything from scratch with the newest OS version.

I think there is a combination of things going on here not least that VRAM is chewing memory for obvious Unifed memory reasons. I still suspect 16GB fine for most users but with the new OS and Apple Silicon I think for a real workload 32GB will be a minimum in the coming years or atleast a transition to it. I’m not convinced the current OS is optimised well enough. It maybe that with intel still in the picture a lot of nonsense is hanging around and poorly optimised. Till the transition is forced/complete we will not so gains in true software/hardware optimisation.