I just got the M1 MBA with 8 GB of ram and tried to set up my dev environment for my hobby needs for iOS development. Everything is working fine, except for simulator which is reportedly using 5 GB of memory. This is waay more than on my intel mac that used 900mb to run. Does anyone have any experience regarding this? Can i configure the simulator to use less ram somehow or is something else wrong?
The ram usage stated above is right after booting up the simulator on both machines and the ram usage readings are from iStat menus. Activity monitor is really hard to use to track ram usage when there are multiple processes involved so I can't really confirm it completely there, but the swap usage skyrockets as well when starting the simulator so I can at least confirm that something is using way too much ram when starting the simulator.
The ram usage stated above is right after booting up the simulator on both machines and the ram usage readings are from iStat menus. Activity monitor is really hard to use to track ram usage when there are multiple processes involved so I can't really confirm it completely there, but the swap usage skyrockets as well when starting the simulator so I can at least confirm that something is using way too much ram when starting the simulator.
