I've been dealing with this ever since a software update to the M1 MBP last summer and it's been an absolute nightmare. It's obviously some kind of system-level memory leak, because my workflow is just basic apps (Superhuman, Chrome, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp are the only apps running most of the time; with the occasional other stuff like Keynote).
I used to do software development, running a million things at once and in decades I can't remember last time I saw the out of memory error. Sure, slow downs due to swap, but never straight up the error forcing me to kill apps.
On the M1 MBP, this error modal would pop up dozens of times a day. I would literally be constantly be quitting any app i'm not directly working on. It'd take a few days to get to this point, but at this point nothing other than a reboot would get it back to normal. The memory total for the apps running (plus the background stuff like Dropbox) was way below the built in 16GB, not to mention zero swap to SSD. Somehow there must be a leak in the OS.
Currently sitting at:
WhatsApp Helper (Renderer) 3.57GB
WhatsApp 1.37GB
Dropbox 1.13 GB
WindowServer 1.05GB
etc.
I used to do software development, running a million things at once and in decades I can't remember last time I saw the out of memory error. Sure, slow downs due to swap, but never straight up the error forcing me to kill apps.
On the M1 MBP, this error modal would pop up dozens of times a day. I would literally be constantly be quitting any app i'm not directly working on. It'd take a few days to get to this point, but at this point nothing other than a reboot would get it back to normal. The memory total for the apps running (plus the background stuff like Dropbox) was way below the built in 16GB, not to mention zero swap to SSD. Somehow there must be a leak in the OS.
Currently sitting at: WhatsApp Helper (Renderer) 3.57GB WhatsApp 1.37GB Dropbox 1.13 GB WindowServer 1.05GB etc.
This is not normal…