ard memory on all hardware and macOS using huge amounts of memory

Until today ard client has used little memory, 3 - 8mb.

Today we find many Macs, at different clients, on different macOS' and hardware (Mini's, iMacs) all started displaying GB of memory use!

This screenshot is on a16GB Mac-Mini yet it shows ard using 40GB+

We ha e restarted the ard client, but the memory use starts all over again...

Posted on Mar 6, 2022 8:00 AM

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jrpserver Author

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5 points

Mar 11, 2022 10:01 AM in response to Dudikowski

I've had to set a cron to killall and restart ARDClient every 12 hours fyi :-(

Memory leak again from Apple ARDClient

Mar 11, 2022 9:28 AM in response to jrpserver

Same for me too.

Sluggish Mac and +20 GB RAM used by ARD.

macOS Monterey

iMac 5K (2015)

Mar 11, 2022 10:18 AM in response to jrpserver

I tried to do this but don’t have enough knowledge.

Could you show how it’s done?

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