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Ventura memory leak
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I am. Since the last update I keep getting an out of memory warning. Safari memory usage is frequently over 40GB. Activity monitor breaks it down across the open tabs, but when added together the usage is usually no more than 4 or 5GB while the figure shown for safari overall could be 42GB. I'm also on an M1 MacBook Air with 16GB memory running Ventura 13. If I close everything down and restart I usually get a little bit of time before it all kicks off again, but it is making the laptop unworkable.
I'm using 13.0, but not Safari. And on Mac Mini M1 8GB I sometimes notice the machine for unknown reasons starts to use virtual memory even when I don't not run any games or apps except Chrome, Commander One, and VLC, something that NEVER happened on Monterey. All the apps are the same, the use of Chrome is the same. In majority of cases the sys monitor shows 0 bytes of used swap in the end of the day, but sometimes suddenly it's 100-500MB. On Monterey, unless I started some large game, I didn't see a single use of the swap file. Could be the memory leak.
Just installed Ventura 13.0.1 on an M1 14-in MacBook Pro (16GB RAM/1TB SSD) . Seeing the memory leak issue with no tabs open at all. Safari is completely unusable on this machine (bubbles up to 99GB RAM usage and then the out of memory error occurs). My 2017 MBP is running fine w/ 13.0.1 and have not run into any memory leak issues on that machine.
I also seem to be having this issue on 13.1 beta 3. With one Safari tab open (MacRumors) and no more running apps other than Activity Monitor, my base M1 MacBook Air is showing 114.8 MB swap used.
EDIT: Looks like it was because I had just finished playing a game; things went back to more normal (without swap usage) after a restart. Still seems like memory usage is generally higher, though… 🤔
EDIT: Looks like it was because I had just finished playing a game; things went back to more normal (without swap usage) after a restart. Still seems like memory usage is generally higher, though… 🤔
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Yep, crashes with literally nothing running. Extensions disabled, doesn't matter. I expected something like this with my older intel Mac, not the new chip you would think the new OS was designed for.
Going to link to another similar thread on this subject to hopefully help get/keep the discussion going 
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Since the last update I keep getting an out of memory warning. Safari memory usage is frequently over 40GB. Activity monitor breaks it down across the open safari tabs, but when added together the usage is usually no more than 4 or 5GB while the figure shown for safari overall could be 40-45GB. I'm also on an M1 MacBook Air with 16GB memory running Ventura 13. If I close everything down and restart I usually get a little bit of time before it all kicks off again, but it is making the laptop unworkable.
Since the last update I keep getting an out of memory warning. Safari memory usage is frequently over 40GB. Activity monitor breaks it down across the open safari tabs, but when added together the usage is usually no more than 4 or 5GB while the figure shown for safari overall could be 40-45GB. I'm also on an M1 MacBook Air with 16GB memory running Ventura 13. If I close everything down and restart I usually get a little bit of time before it all kicks off again, but it is making the laptop unworkable.
Yeah that is basically what is happening to me. If I leave Safari closed and use chrome or Firefox everything is fine. However a couple minutes after opening Safari I will get the out of memory error. I don’t think it’s extension related because it happens even with extensions disabled.
Yes , getting crazy amount of ram on just two open pages !
16gb Ram in mini m1 and only 5gb available , ridiculous situation
16gb Ram in mini m1 and only 5gb available , ridiculous situation
Not seeing this on my 2021 16" MacBook running 13.0.1
I opened 26 tabs in Safari with one running a video plus 10 other Apps running in the background. Total memory usage by Safari was well under 2 GB which looks normal to me. Its average memory usage is 12-14GB w/no Swap.
I opened 26 tabs in Safari with one running a video plus 10 other Apps running in the background. Total memory usage by Safari was well under 2 GB which looks normal to me. Its average memory usage is 12-14GB w/no Swap.
well I just installed Ventura 13.1 on my Studio and memory use leaped from 22 Gb last night to 26 Gb this morning and now after an hour (Safari on?) it is 30 Gb. Rediculous.