memory usage bloating - leak - on Mac os Montery on Mac Air M1

There may be other issues involved. You may want to try restarting in Safe Mode. This clears system caches and starts only the bare necessities. It is slow, but you can check if the some issues arise.

Then you can restart normally and run Etrecheck, and post its report here. More often than not, problems are due to third party extensions or daemons. The report may point to possible causes.

As already mentioned, you should update to 12.1.

Also, try going to System Preferences->Accessibility->Display->Pointer, and click the Reset button. There was a known problem in that changing the cursor size or color could cause a memory leak problem.

Etrecheck is a diagnostic utility created by a respected member of this community so that others helping here can get enough information about the user setup. It does not include any private information, as you can check yourself before posting anything. You can get it from its website, for free (there is a paid version too, with additional features).

After it has finished running, click Share Report->Copy Report.

Then start a reply here, click the "additional text" button below your message

and Paste the report into the text box.

Kiro2022 wrote:

Hello since I have updated the macOS with the new Monterey and I have noticed that my memory consumption is way to high specially for apple native Apps like Safari . for instance if I open one tab on Safari , it adds up 291 MB of memory to the ram even without playing a video. that cuased the SSD to read and write lots of data for abusing Swap memory I need help

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/99e5f340-02aa-4528-8231-b455f7406347

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/a8bf9f5c-d269-44d0-a328-74eeb6c16571

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/975ed882-7358-4ea0-9349-77ade99e5304

Verify your software is up to date..

current is macOS 12.1

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/get-macos-updates-mchlpx1065/mac

That all looks fine. You aren’t using any swap at all. Your memory pressure is green.

It’s 2022, all software uses lots of RAM. Web sites are particularly bad. Don’t worry until you get into GBs.

However, if you ever do notice huge slowdowns after watching online videos, you might need to restart. My wife was watching various Facebook videos last night and her computer slowed down to a crawl. All I had to do was kill a single Facebook web process. But I restarted just to be sure.

Thanks for your help

i have started in safe mode and the problem is exactly the same

what is etrecheck? And how do I send you the report?

thanks so much I am at my wits end

Thank you so much. I will definitely do that.