Memory hogging or memory leak after upgrading to Mac OS Monterey

Memory hogging or leak after upgrading to Mac OS Monterey as seen in the picture attached. I have 64gb of ram and the Mac runs out of memory in a day. I have to reboot it to refresh it every so often. This is happening only after updating to Mac OS 12.01. In the below example Live is using 9.15 gb. Any solutions?

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Posted on Nov 14, 2021 11:05 AM

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dialabrain

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Nov 14, 2021 11:11 AM in response to drpret

One known cause of memory leaks in Monterey is setting the cursor color. That may or may not be the issue in your case. It's also possible "Live" isn't 100% compatible. It's hard to track down the causes of memory leaks.

drpret Author

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Nov 14, 2021 12:26 PM in response to dialabrain

This happens with any open software.... this was just an example of an instance.

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