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your system has run out of application memory
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Are you using Monterey? There is currently an issue with memory leaks, see other threads on this.
If so, I suggest downgrade to Big Sur.
If so, I suggest downgrade to Big Sur.
Some people have been suffering from severe memory leaks on M1 machines. Ignore the Force Quit window (that all looks reasonable), and pull up Activity Monitor. Switch to the Memory tab, sort by highest, and you should find your culprit.
www.macworld.com
There's more info about it, including some possible fixes and workarounds, until Apple releases a patch to fix it for real.
Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Prou2013and I'm not alone
With the release of Monterey and the new MacBook Pro, reports are swirling about users experiencing issues with memory leaks.
www.macworld.com
There's more info about it, including some possible fixes and workarounds, until Apple releases a patch to fix it for real.
You mean Chrome?
But yes, this is an issue with Monterey - and it affects every app...
As usual, I would think this kind of bug would not make it out of BETA versions. I do use the Clean-My-Mac's menu to free up memory. But what a pain to have to clean RAM house several times a day.
You, like me and almost everyone who uses Monterey,. has the dreaded memory leak bug. Apple will fix it eventually.
Before then there is a simple temporary solution. Presumably you have several desktops on your mac. I have 11 at the moment. Go to one you don’t use often and open up Activity Monitor(its in your applications and on every mac). Leave it open all the time. Click on the column that tells you the use of memory by system processes and apps. Highlight(click on) any that look completely out of control, and then click on the little icon with the x in the middle of a circle. Choose force quit. If its an app it will quit and you will have to restart it. If its a process(weird names mostly) then it will quit but come back almost instantly in the small size it's supposed to be. For me about 15 minutes ago I noticed that the most common culprit, Control Center(which normally uses about 26 mb of memory) was slowly sucking more and was up to 144mb. Earlier this week I found it at 14 GB.
You can keep these little buggers from stealing memory by just keeping an eye on them. Be advised: if WindowServer is up at 1gb then its probably doing it too, and if you force quit that one, your screen will go black for about 5 seconds while the OS puts it back, and then you will have to type in your machine password again.
Hope this helps.
Before then there is a simple temporary solution. Presumably you have several desktops on your mac. I have 11 at the moment. Go to one you don’t use often and open up Activity Monitor(its in your applications and on every mac). Leave it open all the time. Click on the column that tells you the use of memory by system processes and apps. Highlight(click on) any that look completely out of control, and then click on the little icon with the x in the middle of a circle. Choose force quit. If its an app it will quit and you will have to restart it. If its a process(weird names mostly) then it will quit but come back almost instantly in the small size it's supposed to be. For me about 15 minutes ago I noticed that the most common culprit, Control Center(which normally uses about 26 mb of memory) was slowly sucking more and was up to 144mb. Earlier this week I found it at 14 GB.
You can keep these little buggers from stealing memory by just keeping an eye on them. Be advised: if WindowServer is up at 1gb then its probably doing it too, and if you force quit that one, your screen will go black for about 5 seconds while the OS puts it back, and then you will have to type in your machine password again.
Hope this helps.
The 'system run out of application memory' popup is a common occurrence in Monterrey. One of the reasons I don't upgrade to the latest OS is to wait for all the bugs to get worked out.
Here is the cause and solution for the Firefox out-of-application memory message. There may be other causes too b/c I have seen Mail, Powerpoint, and Word all consume multi-GB of memory as the leak grows.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735345
For FF, don't use a custom cursor size or color until Apple fixes this bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735345
For FF, don't use a custom cursor size or color until Apple fixes this bug.
Compared to what? Chrome? Brave? FireFox? Opera? Edge?
Which would you recommend?
I've been running Monterey on MBP and iMac24 with no issues that I'm aware of.
I am just about to crank up two Mac minis with Monterey for testing.
Do you have any links to memory leaks?
Using a custom cursor color, by any chance? It's a known trigger for a severe memory leak:
eclecticlight.co
Monterey’s memory leak and how to avoid it
How this memory leak probably occurs, which apps it affects, and what you can do to avoid it completely.
eclecticlight.co
nopeUsing a custom cursor color, by any chance? It's a known trigger for a severe memory leak:
Monterey’s memory leak and how to avoid it
How this memory leak probably occurs, which apps it affects, and what you can do to avoid it completely.
Yeah, dunno then. I'm not either and had one "out of memory" error on my M1 iMac (16GB RAM). Happened exactly once, though, so I wrote it off as a fluke.