Need more tester, here. Found the issue and it can be reproduce. https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ey.2321357/page-2?post=30638815#post-30638815
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Users Reporting 'Memory Leak' Issues After Updating to macOS Monterey
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If you don’t want to click, that link says that the cause of the memory leak is changing the mouse pointer to a size or color that’s different from the Mac OS default
Can anyone confirm that restoring it to default fixes the memory leak? And is anyone experiencing the leak without having a non-default cursor?
Considering I’ve never made changes to my cursor, and I’m still having memory leak issues with the Music app, I’m saying it’s got nothing to do with it.
One thing that apparently does cause it is adjusting brightness manually or automatically while watching HDR Youtube videos.
Just had an out of memory error on my 64gb M1 Max 16". The culprit was command centre which I've never even used on this machine. I haven't changed the mouse pointer or anything else reported to trigger the memory leak.
Working on an important report I just ran out of memory using a MBP 14" 2021 with 32Gb of memory. Word was the culprit this time using 59Gb of memory! I have not changed my mouse setting or screen brightness settings. If this is not fixed soon I will have to revert to my Windows machine which I planned to sell. Being new to Apple I have no idea how quickly they release fixes but I am venting here as this needs to be fixed.
I have reported another memory leak (network stack) half a year ago and still waiting for a fix. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/693701
I believe the issue is with 'WindowsServer'
I have seen it as high as 120GB, and today at 240GB.
Sometimes the system panics, sometimes killing 'WindowsServer' [which results in a logout] fixes the problem.
Sometimes a hard reboot is the only option
I have seen it as high as 120GB, and today at 240GB.
Sometimes the system panics, sometimes killing 'WindowsServer' [which results in a logout] fixes the problem.
Sometimes a hard reboot is the only option
I remember when I could go about a month without needing to reboot.
I woke this morning with the prompt to close an app from the list using too much memory, but only had the Music app open and it showed it only using 2GB of RAM. Just the one app. If there was an issue, it was while I was asleep and it cleared itself. Everything else is fine now, too. Usually I end up having to reboot.
I’ve never seen a bug like this on Mac OS so I’m going to hope they’re going to fix it next month at the latest. This is the worst bug I’ve ever seen that wasn’t data-destroying or bricking machines.
C’mon Apple!
from my other post..hello everyone, I'm 1h in with my prior rather problematic setup with Lightroom Classic and GPU acceleration On and what can I say, from here it looks ok. Still pretty high peaks from time to time but it regulates down so.
also chrome, safari both work fine with HDR content; the MS Office suite (teams, outlook, ppt, xls..) look fine as well via browser (office.365) --> Using a MacBook Pro 16", M1Pro, 32GB, 1TB..
well.. looks nice for my use case, I'll keep you posted
same here. over all memory pressure far far lower. From riding at 40-50% on 32gb w M1 Max to 17% after a day + uptime. Will keep checking it.
What’s the source of this leak? It’s weird that it’s affecting multiple applications but it’s not fixed by one deeper bug fix