Out of system memory with Photos on Mac OS Big Sur

[dashwin]

Has anyone else here experienced out of memory issues on Big Sur (I'm on 11.0.1)?

Using the latest MacBook Air M1 with 16 gigs RAM. I might have hit what I think is a memory leak somewhere. Memory spiked within a short span of 5 minutes. Was using Final Cut Pro X just before this. Was running photos and a few basic apps. Quitting Photos fixed it but as the screenshots show Photos wasn't using a whole lot but the kernel was using 115G!??!!

Not sure if this is related to this being on M1 but I am leaning towards this being a software issue with the OS.

Swap space used...

Memory pressure over time...

 

[hatchettjack]

the m1 is for running iOS apps

 

[Jhoule_]

Same issue here. It's probably a memory leak in Photos. I wasn't actually surprised since it's pretty new. I did had this bug twice editing videos while having nothing else open but Safari. I'm using the MacBook Air M1 (7GPU-8GB)

 

[laptech]

the m1 is for running iOS apps

So the M1 is basically a glorified ipad with a fixed keyboard then, yes?

 

[macona]

the m1 is for running iOS apps

Thats nonsense.

Anyway, yes, I am having the exact same problem trying to import or export large amount of photos, it just keeps eating memory till the app quits topping out using over 40 gigs of memory. Guessing a memory leak bug. I went back to my Catalina Mac Pro and it imports the same batch with no memory leaks and not even using a gig of memory.

 

[Axisman3r]

I have this same exact problem on 2018 Intel Mac Mini

 

[mrchinchilla]

Definitely a software issue. I have all my usual apps up and running and imported all of my photos on my 16gb RAM M1 MBA and my memory pressure hasn’t gone above 30% since I got it.

the m1 is for running iOS apps

Utter nonsense.