Control Center high RAM (~ 9 GB) usage on Monterey 12.0.1 MBP 14” 32 GB RAM.

[telo123]

Saw this on Reddit and wondering if anyone else is experiencing it with their 14” and 16” M1 Macs.

Control Centre seems to be using nearly 9 GB of RAM. Seems to be a big memory leak.

Some redditors replied that macOS will use all of the RAM available to maximize performance, but to have 9 GB of RAM used just by control centre seems off. There’s a memory leak or bug somewhere there.

In comparison, my M1 Air and Mac Mini’s control centre use only 50-100 MB of RAM on Monterey 12.0.1.

 

[white7561]

It is a memory leak. A user has reported that "the memory leak" has been fixed on 12.1 beta. You could try that. It seems like 12.1 is more stable than the stable build itself tbh for the new MBPs since its supposed to fix the kernel panic when playing HDR on YouTube

 

[altaic]

It is a memory leak. A user has reported that "the memory leak" has been fixed on 12.1 beta. You could try that. It seems like 12.1 is more stable than the stable build itself tbh for the new MBPs since its supposed to fix the kernel panic when playing HDR on YouTube

Good to hear it’ll be fixed in the next release. In the meantime, periodically killing the process doesn’t harm anything and is a good workaround. As a reference point, a fresh process uses ~30MB.

 

[jefish]

Do I get a prize?

 

[ksj1]

I wonder what real memory looks like in that situation.

 

[altaic]

Do I get a prize?

I hope you killed the process. IDK if it can force swapping, but that’s not a prize you’d want.

I wonder what real memory looks like in that situation.

Real memory is roughly the same in my experience with this particular memory leak.

 

[maxsquared]

Wonder what cause this memory leak, some people are saying it caused by the music app, the more music you listen to the higher the more memory it uses.

But to me, that can’t be right, as how can Apple or any reputable company put out a product with such “school boy error”. It has to be something else…

 

[thefriendshipmachine]

Wonder what cause this memory leak, some people are saying it caused by the music app, the more music you listen to the higher the more memory it uses.

But to me, that can’t be right, as how can Apple or any reputable company put out a product with such “school boy error”. It has to be something else…

I have never used the music app before and it's at 11GB for me!

 

[Jeff Kirvin]

Wonder what cause this memory leak, some people are saying it caused by the music app, the more music you listen to the higher the more memory it uses.

But to me, that can’t be right, as how can Apple or any reputable company put out a product with such “school boy error”. It has to be something else…

I'm pretty sure it's the audio subsystem, because I also get the "memory leak" playing Endel soundscapes. Anything that shows up in the Control Center's Now Playing panel will do it.

 

[altaic]

I'm pretty sure it's the audio subsystem, because I also get the "memory leak" playing Endel soundscapes. Anything that shows up in the Control Center's Now Playing panel will do it.

Whatever it is, it should take an Apple software engineer about 30 seconds of profiling to figure it out and less than the time to finish his sandwich to fix.

 

[jefish]

I still think I should win something.

 

[altaic]

I still think I should win something.

I'm really curious, what does your memory pressure and swap usage look like?

 

[jefish]

I'm really curious, what does your memory pressure and swap usage look like?

Never alarming, or even abnormal. Pressure is always green, swap is always 0.

 

[altaic]

Never alarming, or even abnormal. Pressure is always green, swap is always 0.

Interesting. It seems that Monterey’s memory management is relatively immune to leaks. What about the compressed memory size?

 

[unQuestionable]

Yeah, I have 9GB for control center, too. I’m trying to figure out if my 32GB, 32 core M1 Max is enough for streaming 1080p of my screen while I edit 4K video, use photoshop to edit frames, and use illustrator to create graphics all live, but In getting like 27GB usage, so I’m not sure if this will be good for the next few years or if I should get the 64

 

[alien3dx]

mine just 50mb - macbook m1

 

[interbear]

16GB RAM on my M1 Pro 14 inch (the slightly more powerful stock model). Control centre is taking up 7GB RAM which seems ridiculous. MS Excel is 13.3GB RAM. I kind of expect Excel to be RAM hungry but Control centre should not be using that much RAM surely?

It's running fine now and memory pressure is in the green zone but that's after I was presented with the "you are out of application memory, force quit some apps" warning when I first woke up the Mac this morning.

 

[MrGunnyPT]

16GB RAM on my M1 Pro 14 inch (the slightly more powerful stock model). Control centre is taking up 7GB RAM which seems ridiculous. MS Excel is 13.3GB RAM. I kind of expect Excel to be RAM hungry but Control centre should not be using that much RAM surely?

It's running fine now and memory pressure is in the green zone but that's after I was presented with the "you are out of application memory, force quit some apps" warning when I first woke up the Mac this morning.

My Control Center was showing up with 6GB yesterday lol.

I noticed if I don't use it at all after a restart it doesn't happen.

 

[trialcritic]

My Control Center was taking 41.50GB just now

I have not restarted my machine after I set it up

I killed the process

 

[Wilson1313]

Same issue. Brand new MBP 14", didn't restore anything from backup, Control center uses anywhere from <1gb to >20gb and then I restart my computer. Huge issue really need to be fixed ASAP. At least I have 32gb ram.

 

[alien3dx]

macbook m1 8 gb = 51 mb
imac 2017 16 gb = 20 mb ?

kinda weird you all

 

[Larabee119]

Quick restart solve the memory leak temporarily.
This process is a pain...

 

[white7561]

You guys do know that you can just force quit it using Activity Monitor right? No need for reboots etc.

 

[VitoBotta]

Mine is using 37MB right now

 

[jg66ue]

I'm having periodic issues with it, as well. One of many monterey issues I'm having. At one point, CC was using almost 40GB of memory.