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Agreed, particularly on my MacBook Air where ~1GB is reserved for the shared video memory. I have to close Firefox or Chrome if I want to do any development work (our research compiler is a bit of a memory hog) without having a process get swapped out.

I would offer ridiculous gobs of money to upgrade to even 6GB.



Where did you get your ~1GB number? It's 384 megabytes on machines with 4GB, probably 256 on 2GB.

(If you have 13.3" MBP with 8GB of RAM, it carves out 512 MB for video memory.)


Maybe he has the 27" screen attached.


Yup, I connect to an external monitor. And worse, it doesn't seem to give that memory back without rebooting.

Sorry --- that was an important detail that I should have included.




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