Why is Control Center using so much memory?

[OhMyMy]

I just received my 14" M1 Pro 10/16/16 and set it up as new. Opened the Activity Monitor and noticed that the CC is using more memory than any other process. I kill it and it slowly creeps up.

Anyone else have this issue?


EDIT: Few mins later it's taking 7.5 GB.

EDIT 2: Scratch that. it's at 9.87 GB now. It's getting ridiculous!

 

[baltoyyz]

Having the same issue. No widgets on my control centre.

 

[OhMyMy]

I think it happens when you're playing a video. I closed Netflix and quit the process and it stayed at 32 MB so far.

 

[Concorde105]

Mine was at 18.19GB used. Haven't played any videos since I last booted. I quit the process in Activity Monitor and it's back to normal. Must be a weird memory leak. I'm sure it will be fixed in an update soon, but I'm surprised they didn't catch this.

 

[misiektoja]

Mine was at 15 GB used (14" M1 Pro 10/16/32), killed it and so far it is ok.

 

[white7561]

Yeah it's a memory leak. One user reported that it's fixed in 12.1 beta. But idk can't confirm anything since my MBP is still on the way

 

[metapunk2077fail]

Mine is using 800MB currently.

 

[OhMyMy]

Yeah it's a memory leak. One user reported that it's fixed in 12.1 beta. But idk can't confirm anything since my MBP is still on the way

Could you post a link to that?

 

[white7561]

Could you post a link to that?

Apple Seeds First Public Beta of macOS Monterey 12.1 With SharePlay

It is

forums.macrumors.com

Tho to be sure it's prob best to try it. Since it seems like the beta fixes more like the kernel panic while playing HDR on YouTube.

 

[OhMyMy]

Apple Seeds First Public Beta of macOS Monterey 12.1 With SharePlay

It is

forums.macrumors.com

Tho to be sure it's prob best to try it. Since it seems like the beta fixes more like the kernel panic while playing HDR on YouTube.

Thanks for the link. I’d prefer to wait until beta 4 before I try. It’s a PITA to set everything back up if an annoying bug creeps up.

 

[white7561]

Thanks for the link. I’d prefer to wait until beta 4 before I try. It’s a PITA to set everything back up if an annoying bug creeps up.

Yeh. We just have to be patient. This is what it's like being first adopters I guess . ?

 

[alternamelka]

pleaseee ??? this is so funny. Why is the feature that controls my keyboard brightness using 29GB of memory hahaha

At least everything is still running smoothly haha

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Yeh. We just have to be patient. This is what it's like being first adopters I guess . ?

It's MacOS, don't think we are first adopters ha

 

[white7561]

It's MacOS, don't think we are first adopters ha

I was referring to the HDR kernel panic bug that only happens with the new MBP. So yeah. We are kinda the first adopters of these line of products

 

[OhMyMy]

Music app went haywire on me with 113GB usage. This is nuts!

 

[flexiboy1912]

Still not fixed in the latest beta , really annoying come on Apple FFS

 

[zarathu]

You, like me and almost everyone who uses Monterey,. has the dreaded memory leak bug. Apple will fix it eventually.

Before then there is a simple temporary solution. Presumably you have several desktops on your mac. I have 11 at the moment. Go to one you don’t use often and open up Activity Monitor(its in your applications and on every mac). Leave it open all the time. Click on the column that tells you the use of memory by system processes and apps. Highlight(click on) any that look completely out of control, and then click on the little icon with the x in the middle of a circle. Choose force quit. If its an app it will quit and you will have to restart it. If its a process(weird names mostly) then it will quit but come back almost instantly in the small size it's supposed to be. For me about 15 minutes ago I noticed that the most common culprit, Control Center(which normally uses about 26 mb of memory) was slowly sucking more and was up to 144mb. Earlier this week I found it at 14 GB.

You can keep these little buggers from stealing memory by just keeping an eye on them. Be advised: if WindowServer is up at 1gb then its probably doing it too, and if you force quit that one, your screen will go black for about 5 seconds while the OS puts it back, and then you will have to type in your machine password again.

Hope this helps.

 

[flexiboy1912]

Yeah it's a memory leak. One user reported that it's fixed in 12.1 beta. But idk can't confirm anything since my MBP is still on the way

Not fixed in latest beta sadly

 

[flexiboy1912]

You, like me and almost everyone who uses Monterey,. has the dreaded memory leak bug. Apple will fix it eventually.

Before then there is a simple temporary solution. Presumably you have several desktops on your mac. I have 11 at the moment. Go to one you don’t use often and open up Activity Monitor(its in your applications and on every mac). Leave it open all the time. Click on the column that tells you the use of memory by system processes and apps. Highlight(click on) any that look completely out of control, and then click on the little icon with the x in the middle of a circle. Choose force quit. If its an app it will quit and you will have to restart it. If its a process(weird names mostly) then it will quit but come back almost instantly in the small size it's supposed to be. For me about 15 minutes ago I noticed that the most common culprit, Control Center(which normally uses about 26 mb of memory) was slowly sucking more and was up to 144mb. Earlier this week I found it at 14 GB.

You can keep these little buggers from stealing memory by just keeping an eye on them. Be advised: if WindowServer is up at 1gb then its probably doing it too, and if you force quit that one, your screen will go black for about 5 seconds while the OS puts it back, and then you will have to type in your machine password again.

Hope this helps.

Yes I understand all this as IT admin but they beta tested this for months and months and was not an issue , they release to public and its now introduced it. They need to fix it sooner rather then later and shows shocking lack of QA

 

[OhMyMy]

You, like me and almost everyone who uses Monterey,. has the dreaded memory leak bug. Apple will fix it eventually.

Before then there is a simple temporary solution. Presumably you have several desktops on your mac. I have 11 at the moment. Go to one you don’t use often and open up Activity Monitor(its in your applications and on every mac). Leave it open all the time. Click on the column that tells you the use of memory by system processes and apps. Highlight(click on) any that look completely out of control, and then click on the little icon with the x in the middle of a circle. Choose force quit. If its an app it will quit and you will have to restart it. If its a process(weird names mostly) then it will quit but come back almost instantly in the small size it's supposed to be. For me about 15 minutes ago I noticed that the most common culprit, Control Center(which normally uses about 26 mb of memory) was slowly sucking more and was up to 144mb. Earlier this week I found it at 14 GB.

You can keep these little buggers from stealing memory by just keeping an eye on them. Be advised: if WindowServer is up at 1gb then its probably doing it too, and if you force quit that one, your screen will go black for about 5 seconds while the OS puts it back, and then you will have to type in your machine password again.

Hope this helps.

I only use one desktop and this one typically happens when I play something on Netflix. I quit the process and it goes back to 30 MB for a bit but keeps going back up into the gigs after a few mins. It’s quite frustrating to have to do that over and over multiple times in a span of a movie. For me it’s Control Center 99% of the time except for one Out of Memory for Photos.