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What 19 GB of Memory Compression Taught Me About MLX on M1 Max The moment something was wrong I opened Activity Monitor on my M1 Max one afternoon and saw this: Memory Used 60.74 GB out of 64, compressed memory 19.69 GB, swap starting to fill. The Sw...

Apr 20 · 8 min read · sleepyquant.hashnode.dev  
Updated Apr 23  
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