Macbook Pro started to run out of ram on every single app. Apples response is well you have to call adobe, skylum and topaz

visual161 wrote:

Apples response is well its not an apple app and third party so its no longer our responsibility.

sorry, but that is essentially correct. apple has no control over anything that 3rd party app developers do.

I guess we all buy MacBook pros to only work with apple made applications and no third party apps.

if that was correct, then my Mac would be useless. almost everything I do with my Mac is with third party apps.

but, anyways, i'm thinking you should download and run the free version of EtreCheck so we can see if you have some software installed that is causing your issue. make sure you give "full disk access" to etrecheck. Learn how to use it by reading Using EtreCheck. if you need help interpreting the report, you can see how to post the report here by reading How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report. and it automatically obscures sensitive things (like serial numbers) so you don't have to worry about sharing the report here.

There is a serious problem with your Mac and the apps you are trying to run - in 30 years, I have never seen a RAM swap (52 GB) of such proportions. That explains all your symptoms. Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for you, but I do have a couple of initial thoughts:

Just to make sure: when you say the other apps are "closed" - did you actually quit (Command + Q) them or are they running in the background? There is a difference.

And, ask the developer, if their apps are specifically compatible with the new M1 chip - their requirements state compatibility with Intel chips on their site.

And do run and post the etrecheck results.

Pay close attention to the Units shown in the list in Activity Monitor. It is telling you that Luminar Neo is using 54.20 Giga Bytes of RAM, about four times as much as is installed in the machine (16 G bytes installed).

This is NOT normal.

visual161 wrote:

I will check that out. I know they can’t help with a specific 3rd party app. But this is every third party app from different company’s. And some are your typical editing apps everyone uses on apple devices.

and that's one reason we need to see your EtreCheck report. if they are "typical apps everyone uses" then it's an issue somewhere in the software you have installed. even things that may seem unrelated to the malfunctioning apps. otherwise "everyone" would be having issues with those apps.

<< I keep hearing it referred to as a serious memory leak in apples operating system. >>

That is now ancient History -- that problem was a modest one that came in with the early transition to Apple silicon M1 software. That stuff was fixed quite a while ago.