I have found that by doing this, I seem to have less and less and less and issue with the offending apps and processes, almost as if the neural engine is learning what I want. 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. You can keep these little buggers from stealing memory by just keeping an eye on them.

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. 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. If its an app it will quit and you will have to restart it. 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. Click on the column that tells you the use of memory by system processes and apps. Go to one you don’t use often and open up Activity Monitor(its in your applications and on every mac).

Presumably you have several desktops on your mac. Apple will fix it eventually.īefore then there is a simple temporary solution. You, like me and almost everyone who uses Monterey.

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