about my MacBook Air base model running on Monterey 12.5 , is the ram swap dangerous or nothing to worry about ?
but the performance of my MacBook it stable and good for the 8gb of ram , running photoshop, illustrator and indesign , but only I worry about numbers when I see the activity monitor and the swap memory cause I don't understand how it really works or this is ok or bad thing ..
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.5
Swap is not something dangerous. Swap happens when the RAM is used up, and the Mac needs to store something in RAM but has nowhere to put it, it will use hard drive space in that case to store it momentarily.
Its perfectly normal to have some amount of swap.
Your RAM pressure, which is the color of the graph is more important. It should be Green mostly, or Yellow If a lot or RAM usage is happening. In your case, its yellow, but its expected with RAM pressuring Apps like Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign.
If it goes to Red and stays there for long periods of time, then its a sign your computer does not have enough RAM for your tasks.
Swap is not something dangerous. Swap happens when the RAM is used up, and the Mac needs to store something in RAM but has nowhere to put it, it will use hard drive space in that case to store it momentarily.
Its perfectly normal to have some amount of swap.
Your RAM pressure, which is the color of the graph is more important. It should be Green mostly, or Yellow If a lot or RAM usage is happening. In your case, its yellow, but its expected with RAM pressuring Apps like Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign.
If it goes to Red and stays there for long periods of time, then its a sign your computer does not have enough RAM for your tasks.
Adobe's minimum recommended RAM for Photoshop 2022 is 16 GB, and you are trying to create a blivet (ten pounds of stuff in a five pound bag) by eaking by on an 8GB RAM Mac. You are also attempting to do many other things with your RAM while using Photoshop, so expect yellow or red memory pressure as a way of life on that Mac.
Ram Swap on m1 air
