Thanks for trying to help.
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 149.9M 1 loop /snap/chromium/2466
loop1 7:1 0 59.1M 1 loop /snap/core20/1883
loop2 7:2 0 53.5M 1 loop /snap/cups/873
loop3 7:3 0 4K 1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop4 7:4 0 334M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/141
loop5 7:5 0 91.7M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
loop6 7:6 0 46.4M 1 loop /snap/snapd/19127
loop7 7:7 0 16M 1 loop
mmcblk1 179:0 0 59G 0 disk
├─mmcblk1p1 179:1 0 53.8G 0 part /
├─mmcblk1p2 179:2 0 128M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p3 179:3 0 768K 0 part
├─mmcblk1p4 179:4 0 31.6M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p5 179:5 0 128M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p6 179:6 0 768K 0 part
├─mmcblk1p7 179:7 0 31.6M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p8 179:8 0 80M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p9 179:9 0 512K 0 part
├─mmcblk1p10 179:10 0 64M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p11 179:11 0 80M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p12 179:12 0 512K 0 part
├─mmcblk1p13 179:13 0 64M 0 part
└─mmcblk1p14 179:14 0 879.5M 0 part
zram0 251:0 0 540.1M 0 disk [SWAP]
zram1 251:1 0 540.1M 0 disk [SWAP]
zram2 251:2 0 540.1M 0 disk [SWAP]
zram3 251:3 0 540.1M 0 disk [SWAP]
zram4 251:4 0 540.1M 0 disk [SWAP]
zram5 251:5 0 540.1M 0 disk [SWAP]
I tried stopping swap.target, but it had no effect (tegrastats still gives 6481MB RAM)
I also tried the suggestion here to run the SDK manager docker image via virtualbox to access USB, but ran into blocking issues there as well:
- virtualbox.org • View topic - Error in default driver creation in VM
- virtualbox.org • View topic - M1/M2 Mac 7.04 Host Adapter
I looked into dual-booting linux on my mac as suggested in the thread, but that seems like actually a fairly involved process (I have a T2 2020 MBP):
I don’t think my raspis will work as they only have 4GB RAM and the SDK manager needs 8GB
So I think my options are 1) slog through the dual-boot stuff 2) buy a linux box w/ 8GB+ RAM 3) accept the ~1GB RAM loss
I’ll prob end up going with 3 but wish this process weren’t so painful. Open to suggestions