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Suddenly, as of 11.6 and 11.6.1, my 2020 MBP M1 with 16GB of RAM is running out of memory every few days. I have attached screenshots that show, that Safari is culprit. The Force Quit Applications window says that Safari is using 402.4 MB but Activity Monitor shows that just one Safari tab (Amazon) is taking up 3.15 GB of memory. The NY Times is 2.46 GB.
What is going on? 🤔
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6
Michael Tchong wrote:
Suddenly, as of 11.6 and 11.6.1, my 2020 MBP M1 with 16GB of RAM is running out of memory every few days. I have attached screenshots that show, that Safari is culprit. The Force Quit Applications window says that Safari is using 402.4 MB but Activity Monitor shows that just one Safari tab (Amazon) is taking up 3.15 GB of memory. The NY Times is 2.46 GB.
What is going on? 🤔
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/af6d7973-40b9-49b6-b486-c40bb1b95630
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/33bb4942-ffe9-425f-9ee0-676fe659e70e
I am not seeing wide spread reports of memory leaks in macOS BigSur 11.6 or 11.6.1
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/Anti-Virus/VPN
all known to cause issues on the macOS
if no resolve—
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Readers have reported that MacOS may have a memory leak problem.
Until this gets addressed, Restart your Mac more often.
Sadly that's something I suddenly have to do now. 😟
I used to go 3-5 days without restarting. Now I have to do it more frequently, I believe I have gone three days now.
And as you well should know, nine out of 10 software makers don't supply uninstallers. 🙄
MBP M1 with 16GB is running out of memory constantly
