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reaperducer on Jan 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Don’t even think about having more than one user logged in!

I currently have an 8GB M1 running with four users logged in. Three users are iTunes media servers, and the fourth is a regular user.

No heavy computing tasks, obviously, but it's absolutely possible to have more than one user logged in.

Wowfunhappy on Jan 17, 2023 [–]

I'd imagine it's relatively easy for the OS to just swap out the memory from the inactive user. Unless they're actually running a task in the background, but how often does that happen?

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