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Toutouxc on May 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac...

Yes, macOS creates a series of 1 GB swapfiles on a special disk volume called "VM".

vaylian on May 21, 2021 [–]

What does VM stand for?

bufferoverflow on May 21, 2021 | [–]

Virtual memory, guessing here.

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