Apple macOS Monterey’s few users met a “memory leak” problem: Report

According to the latest report, some users who have recently upgraded to macOS Monterey encountered an error called “memory leak”. In this case, specific macOS processes or applications will be in the background for a long time Run and consume a lot of memory.

Moreover, memory leak refers to the fact that the dynamically allocated heap memory in the program is not released or cannot be released for some reason, resulting in a waste of system memory, resulting in a slowdown in program operation and even system crashes and other serious consequences.

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Furthermore, the Firefox browser occupies 79.2GB of memory, and the control center occupies more than 26GB of memory. It is currently difficult to determine which models of Mac computers have been affected, and the reported user issues are more extensive, including the newly released 2021 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros.

In addition to the more prominent problems in Firefox and Control Center, more users reported that the system will pop up with the error “Your system application is out of memory”, and it comes from other applications. For example, the calendar in the picture below occupies 106.43GB of memory.

The cause and solution of the error are not yet clear. Users can try to restart, but some users said that the error will continue to occur after restarting. Some users previously reported that the old Mac became bricked after upgrading macOS Monterey, and the firmware needs to be restored before it can be used. So in the face of these problems, the best way is not to upgrade to macOS Monterey and wait for Apple to launch the next official version before considering the update.