M1 "running out of application memory"

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#295667 13-Apr-2022 09:41

I'm running the latest version of Mac OS Monterey on my Mac Mini M1 16GB RAM with 512 GB drive. I keep getting this message asking me to face quit apps that sometimes are using only about 1GB of space due to "your system has run out of application memory". Its done this right now as I type with only Safari, mail and finder open.

My hard drive has 150GB of usable space. This is driving me nuts. Any idea of how to fix this?

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#2901813 13-Apr-2022 11:07

This is odd. There's something wrong. When was the last time you restarted?

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#2901904 13-Apr-2022 13:15

gzt: This is odd. There's something wrong. When was the last time you restarted?

I restart every day, this has been going on for months.

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#2901913 13-Apr-2022 13:23

Have you opened activity monitor to see is anything behind the scene's is taking your memory. ??

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#2901914 13-Apr-2022 13:23

Could it be the memory leak problem on Monterey you are experiencing?

I have heard tales of other memory leak problems on Monterey as well. Maybe I should be happy I have still not updated from Big Sur.

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#2901917 13-Apr-2022 13:25

Can you show memory usage by process / application? Something like this.

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#2901935 13-Apr-2022 14:12

jarledb:

Could it be the memory leak problem on Monterey you are experiencing?

I have heard tales of other memory leak problems on Monterey as well. Maybe I should be happy I have still not updated from Big Sur.

I've only just this morning upgraded to Monterey from Big Sur where it was doing the same thing. I "upgraded" in the hope it would go away.

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#2901937 13-Apr-2022 14:13

JaseNZ:

Have you opened activity monitor to see is anything behind the scene's is taking your memory. ??

Thanks for this, I didn't even know it was there. But of course now everything is normal right now, and there's nothing major using any resources behind the scenes that I can see.

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#2902004 13-Apr-2022 15:23

bluedisk:

I've only just this morning upgraded to Monterey from Big Sur where it was doing the same thing. I "upgraded" in the hope it would go away.

Hmm, interesting. I have a M1 MacBook Air with Big Sur and have not had the memory leak problem. But it does seem to need a restart now and then.

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#2902055 13-Apr-2022 17:41

M1 is it still under warranty?

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#2902163 13-Apr-2022 21:58

gzt: M1 is it still under warranty?

Im not sure, I bought it in January last year and its been doing this for most of last year, but i just put up with it. Bought from PB Tech, I guess I should try them first.

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#2902167 13-Apr-2022 22:16

It might be OneDrive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/stpjvr/memory_leak_on_onedrive_macos_desktop_app/

Given that the listed processes don't show heavy usages it suggests that some background processes are taking up the memory.

I am happy to use OneDrive on Windows but I stopped using it on Mac a while ago because I didn't trust what it was really doing.

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#2902173 13-Apr-2022 23:08

Hi there, this has been widely reported as a common bug with M1 macs. I am unsure if it also affects M1 Pro and M1 Max to the same extent.

What is useful to deal with it in the meantime is to get a memory manager like Memory Clean 3, and have that set to clean the memory every 3 minutes.
That will check the memory and virtual memory usage, and also remind you to quit unused applications if they haven't been active in half an hour.