Some processes are taking too much RAM on MacBook Pro 16" 2021

[hajime]

Hi, I have a 16GB version. From Activity Monitor, control centre takes 927.6MB, Safari Graphics and Media takes 731.9MB, Dropbox takes 584.6MB, Safari takes 445.9MB and Safari's Web contents (cache) takes 291.4MB (it was over 500MB), forums.macrumors.com takes 625MB.

Is it because of memory leak issue? I though Apple fixed it few months ago.

 

[yitwail]

Hi, I have a 16GB version. From Activity Monitor, control centre takes 927.6MB, Safari Graphics and Media takes 731.9MB, Dropbox takes 584.6MB, Safari takes 445.9MB and Safari's Web contents (cache) takes 291.4MB (it was over 500MB), forums.macrumors.com takes 625MB.

Is it because of memory leak issue? I though Apple fixed it few months ago.

If the MEMORY PRESSURE is in the green, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[hajime]

If the MEMORY PRESSURE is in the green, I wouldn't worry about it.

Yes, it is in green. So for the M1 Mac, we should focus on the memory pressure rather than the memory usage of each process? Has Apple really fixed the memory leak issue?

 

[yitwail]

Yes, it is in green. So for the M1 Mac, we should focus on the memory pressure rather than the memory usage of each process? Has Apple really fixed the memory leak issue?

When process usage is gigabytes, not megabytes, you should probably kill it before it slows down everything else. And no, Apple hasn't fixed memory leakage as far as I know. Hopefully, they're working on it, because I'm sure they're aware of it.