macOS Monterey 12.1 still has memory leak issue

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Horrible memory leaking occurring since Monterey upgrade. I have an iMac with 32mb of memory - it drops to single digits with ANYTHING running - Safari, Mail, Music......brings it to its knees. WHERE IS THE UPDATE AND FIX!?!?!

Glad you shared this. I had setup a tech support session with a level 2 from Apple to discuss this same problem. I had not taken any action on that because I believed the problem was on Apple's side and not my specific machine. By the way, I'm on an Intel Mac, so it doesn't appear to a Apple silicon vs Intel situation. I was looking at a new 24 inch iMac, but I'm waiting on a resolution. Fingers crossed for 12.3 update.

Yeah safe mode makes no difference. I've uninstalled anything "New" and removed all launch agents. Clean my mac can't find anything also.

I fix Apple's for clients and for a living and can say that this issue has come up a lot.

This happens on a Samsung T5, T7 and M2 Pro drive. Blazing speeds. I can boot up on a m series mac with no issues whatsoever with the same thunderbolt drive.

I'm talking pre M1 machines. Anything M series seems ok.

You don't wanna even attempt to manage or disable "swap". That is the job of the OS. What is happening is a systemic mismanagement of RAM resources. If you intervene with the process you will only add to your problems. I have never seen activity monitor with entries like Monterey has. My 2017 iMac with 16GB of RAM has been through (6) MacOS releases.

I'm not seeing the memory leaks anymore. I had a system just sitting there doing absolutely nothing. 8G m1 mini. It would eventually run out of memory and the OOM killer in the kernel would kill finder itself. Nothing but a hard reset worked to get the system back working.

After the latest 1 or 2 updates, the machine is running for several weeks without any memory issues.

Applications use memory. Some are memory intensive, even. Music app, for example, might be loading the images for all the songs and playlists and albums and artists so as you browse and return to a view you've. seen, it's fast.

If you are truly having memory leak issues, closing the app using the memory will free up all the memory it was using. If there's a true memory leak in the OS, it will eventually run out of RAM and swap space and basically halt.

The problem remains after closing the music app (which can't be closed easily). Then it starts that other apps complain about running out of memory. At the same time the machine isn't very responsive anymore, sometimes it freezes, sometimes the mouse and keyboard don't react. I've gone through many threads in other forums and there are lots of people with the same problems since updating on Mojave. Some had it with the last version of BigSur. So it must be the memory leak.

12.3.1 still has the issue. The Mail app has become unusable, making it impossible for me to work. This is not acceptable, a fix is needed quickly. As it is, I'll have to waste the time and pain of downgrading back to Catalina from Time Machine.

JC

I have this memory leaking issue on my wife' Mac Book Pro M1 Max 64G RAM running latest Monterey as of 2/17/2022, and got this radiculus "Your system has run out of application memory." error...

From Apple Support:

"We can confirm that this issue is still under investigation by our engineering teams. While they don’t have a resolution yet, we encourage to you keep macOS up to date."

After updated MacOS from 11.5.2 to 12.1, I've been experiencing memory shortage issue, too. I believe 12.1 still has memory leaking issue.

Since I am using Intel based Mac (iMac2019), this is not only M1 based mac issue, but also Intel based mac.

Very annoying!

Hi, it's March and still no solution in sight? I just upgraded to Monterey 12.2.1, but my Mac mini M1 (16GB) still suffers from massive memory leaks when I run graphics software (Sketch, Adobe XD, etc.). How are we supposed to work like this? :-(

I was afraid of this leak before I received my pro when they first came out. But I figured it would get fixed quickly. But I was wrong, my 32 gig system was using 70 some gigs of memory for no obvious reason just a couple weeks ago.

Has apple even acknowledged the problem?