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macOS Monterey: Very high Memory usage across apps

I am seeing very high memory usage on my M1 mac pro and is happening across apps. Most times it's Microsoft office apps but it also happens with native apps or processes like control center or windows server, etc. Is this a bug in Monterey that is causing some system APIs to leak memory? Seems like it?


Does anyone know a solution or a workaround? App consuming higher memory usage is purely random it seems, as a couple of times I had Safari (which had no tabs open so was idle) also go till 25GB of usage. Killing and restarting apps is really painful. This only started happening since Monterey upgrade.


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Nov 26, 2021 9:00 AM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2021 10:11 AM

FighterBuddha wrote:

I am seeing very high memory usage on my M1 mac pro and is happening across apps. Most times it's Microsoft office apps but it also happens with native apps or processes like control center or windows server, etc. Is this a bug in Monterey that is causing some system APIs to leak memory? Seems like it?

Does anyone know a solution or a workaround? App consuming higher memory usage is purely random it seems, as a couple of times I had Safari (which had no tabs open so was idle) also go till 25GB of usage. Killing and restarting apps is really painful. This only started happening since Monterey upgrade.


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https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/2a628b4b-98ed-442e-9be8-03d832395614




There are some known issues with memory leaks in other applications mentioned..

in the macOS Monterey—


If you made changes to customize your mouse pointer and specifically the color choice—restore the defaults and compare your results.


Change Pointer preferences for accessibility on Mac - Apple ...

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-pointer-preferences-for-accessibility-mchl5bb12e1e/mac

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Nov 26, 2021 10:11 AM in response to FighterBuddha

FighterBuddha wrote:

I am seeing very high memory usage on my M1 mac pro and is happening across apps. Most times it's Microsoft office apps but it also happens with native apps or processes like control center or windows server, etc. Is this a bug in Monterey that is causing some system APIs to leak memory? Seems like it?

Does anyone know a solution or a workaround? App consuming higher memory usage is purely random it seems, as a couple of times I had Safari (which had no tabs open so was idle) also go till 25GB of usage. Killing and restarting apps is really painful. This only started happening since Monterey upgrade.


//:0
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/2a628b4b-98ed-442e-9be8-03d832395614




There are some known issues with memory leaks in other applications mentioned..

in the macOS Monterey—


If you made changes to customize your mouse pointer and specifically the color choice—restore the defaults and compare your results.


Change Pointer preferences for accessibility on Mac - Apple ...

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-pointer-preferences-for-accessibility-mchl5bb12e1e/mac

Nov 26, 2021 12:11 PM in response to FighterBuddha

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macOS Monterey: Very high Memory usage across apps

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