macOS Sequoia Massive memory leak

dragontorc wrote:

I too have the memory leak issue.

Also, the screen flickers intermittently without apparent reason.

Kindly hope a fix is in the works ahead of macOS 15.1 release next month.

Neither are problems with Sequoia. There won’t be a fix anywhere for your problems. Call Apple.

I have had one thing seize on my Mac since installing a week ago and that was between Safari Setting and System Settings when I clicked on Advance Settings in Privacy, then and it opened Advanced>Proxies>Change Settings. It froze in System Settings in the Proxy Window.

Mac Jim ID wrote:

Yep, that was the correct approach to take. I just had to bring it forward since your suggestion seemed to be ignored.

We are left to assume none of this discussion's participants actually wants to fix their Mac.

iceboooks wrote:

How to check on Mac for memory leak? I don't experience major memory issue after upgrading to Sequoia.

If you’re not experiencing issues, there’s seemingly not much point in looking around.

If that was misphrasing and you are seeing issues, see the previous replies in this thread for the tooling commonly used.

I remember I used to use a Macbook Intel (2019) with 8GB RAM and it used to work so good (used until Aug 2023). I used to run dozens of tabs on Firefox and many other applications in parallel. Now I have Pro M3 and RAM consumption is 15GB+ on just PyCharm and merely 15 tabs on Firefox. Whats going on?

Attached is my EtreCheck Report of my INTEL MacBook Pro circa 2019 2.4 GHz 8 Core Intel i9, 64GB of memory running Sequoia 15.0.1. This Mac has been running really unstably, can only stay up for a few hours. ever since it was upgraded to Sequoia from Sonoma.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

cytan

Hi BDAqua,

It's been 23 hours since the last reboot and my MacBook Pro hasn't crashed since. I think removing those two plists fixed my problem! It's just so weird that these two plists would cause the WindowServer to crash.

Thanks!

cytan

Same problem here. M3 mbp with macOS 15.0.1. Simply repeating switching from another app back to iphone mirroring make windowserver memory usage increase ~1GB. I had been enjoying iphone mirroring until I realized this. Really unfortunate. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED IMMEDIATELY!

I'm no expert so this pennyworth might not be worth a penny but it is how I understand it:

Random Access Memory is memory instantly available for open programmes to use so having 8gb RAM and not using it all could be said to be a waste. I don't think that using it fills up the machine's "installed memory" where your photos and documents and apps are stored and, when you switch an app off, the RAM it was using becomes available for other tasks. The newer apps use more RAM because they do more but when they are not used they don't occupy the RAM memory space. I paid £400 extra to double the RAM on this M1 machine to 16gb and the money will have been wasted if it is not needed. If we notice a performance problem due to high RAM usage it might be time to upgrade to a more modern machine. Multi-tasking with a lot of open apps is a great idea but can our brains really cope with all that?

A lot of the posters here seem to regard increased RAM usage as a problem in itself when the only problem is when there is not enough RAM and a programme has to be closed or, worst case, a new machine purchased.

I am astounded by the size of your Mail programme. Mine is:

I delete most communications except Family and Friends and my health, insurance, taxes and other personal business.

Are you the BBC or Microsoft or a spam factory? I am awed by the immense hoard of mail you have.

Perhaps you could move your historic, archival, emails to an external hard disk if you feel unable to bin them and that might free up more space for current work.

I have had two system crashes in the last week, previously, flawless performance. I see in the crashlog that process parralalsM was faulting out - I ran all app updates available, restarted the VM fresh, left the machine overnight with my regular open apps. This morning it was responsive again, but after a while the system initiated a process manager window I've never seen before stating system memory is full. In the list of processes (mostly in the 100s of Mbs usage), Firefox was at 57Gb. Clearly, closed Firefox, and system is still running. I'll report to Mozilla and Apple in case there is an issue there.

So I had version 15.0 and everything was great. I'm now getting the problem after installing version 15.1. As someone here said, the problem is the OS in relation to USB-C and\or HDMI monitor connections. It's not one specific app. My particular problem is with the screensaver. My Citrix workspace App also but all that is irrelevant. I trying to figure out how to downgrade back to 15.0. No luck so far. Apple support said I would have to go back to Sonoma. Anyone found a solution yet?

I actually have the same issue! Keeps bumping to quite alot

MacBook Pro 14, M3 Pro

Simulator + Xcode = No emails, no Database manager, hardly Safari and Canvas of Xcode is not working