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aurareturn 18 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Asahi Linux on M3

It idles at 2-3GB but when your apps need the RAM, does it free up system memory so that it's closer to 500MB?

tarruda 18 days ago [–]

I use my Mac as a headless server to run LLMs, and never even start a desktop session so it always stays at pre-login state without any applications running. Even so, I never saw it using less than 2G in htop when logged via SSH.

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