On MacOS, while the demote is running, I can see that the RDD process (Remote Data Decoder) and another unnamed content process are using up memory. Once the re-encode finishes, those memories are freed. I am not sure why this doesn't show on Windows.
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On MacOS, while the demote is running, I can see that the RDD process (Remote Data Decoder) and another unnamed content process are using up memory. Once the re-encoding finishes, those memories are freed. I am not sure why this doesn't show on Windows.