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Minipudding

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Jan 27, 2019
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I have a 13" 2017 MacBook Air (with Intel HD Graphics 6000) and it's allocating 1.5GB of my main memory for the integrated GPU. It's far more VRAM than I ever need/use, and I would prefer if I could somehow reduce the amount by perhaps 0.5GB or even more as I regularly run into RAM shortage during certain hungry tasks.

Is there any way to to modify any relevant kernel extensions to accomplish this on Mojave, or is there a way to do it on Sierra?
 

LogicalApex

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Nov 13, 2015
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I have a 13" 2017 MacBook Air (with Intel HD Graphics 6000) and it's allocating 1.5GB of my main memory for the integrated GPU. It's far more VRAM than I ever need/use, and I would prefer if I could somehow reduce the amount by perhaps 0.5GB or even more as I regularly run into RAM shortage during certain hungry tasks.

Is there any way to to modify any relevant kernel extensions to accomplish this on Mojave, or is there a way to do it on Sierra?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204349

Graphics memory is dynamically set. How do you know how much graphics memory you need? To say you could allocate better?
 
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