ARTICLEDEV.to AI·4/20/2026
What 19 GB of Memory Compression Taught Me About MLX on M1 Max
The author describes encountering 19 GB of memory compression while running a large LLM with MLX on an M1 Max, initially mistaking it for a leak. The fix involved a single MLX API call to properly manage macOS unified memory for large models idling between inferences.
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