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Apple says memory leak in Finder is not a leak, but a design feature
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1939573" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Apple called it 2-3 days before Finder releases the cache, so not a fixed timer anywhere. Maybe Sonoma rolls some imaginary dice to select the time? (Before anybody responds, that was a joke.) The Terminal command "killall Finder" does recover the space, as does using the apple icon upper right and then Force Quit to restart Finder. And turning off the device, or even rebooting clearly recovers the cache as well. </p><p></p><p>As for using any tool to clear memory because of this anomaly, I don't think that's really needed. As I said in post #4,</p><p></p><p>So this growth in Finder memory consumption isn't coming out of main memory, or swap memory, or SSD storage, at least as reported by Activity Monitor. Maybe there is some space in an alternate Universe where Apple is storing these icons (another joke), but it is not anywhere that the user can see it in this universe. So, there is either a bug in FInder in not releasing this memory as it should, or a bug in Activity Monitor that is missing this use of memory, or a bug in APFS where the storage is not being reported properly, or Apple made up the story that it was by design. </p><p></p><p>Bottom line is that Apple doesn't seem to be playing straight with us over this, which makes one wonder what else they may be doing.</p><p></p><p>But the good news is that there are not a lot of protests in the internet universe about running out of memory, so no reason to storm Apple headquarters, yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1939573, member: 396914"] Apple called it 2-3 days before Finder releases the cache, so not a fixed timer anywhere. Maybe Sonoma rolls some imaginary dice to select the time? (Before anybody responds, that was a joke.) The Terminal command "killall Finder" does recover the space, as does using the apple icon upper right and then Force Quit to restart Finder. And turning off the device, or even rebooting clearly recovers the cache as well. As for using any tool to clear memory because of this anomaly, I don't think that's really needed. As I said in post #4, So this growth in Finder memory consumption isn't coming out of main memory, or swap memory, or SSD storage, at least as reported by Activity Monitor. Maybe there is some space in an alternate Universe where Apple is storing these icons (another joke), but it is not anywhere that the user can see it in this universe. So, there is either a bug in FInder in not releasing this memory as it should, or a bug in Activity Monitor that is missing this use of memory, or a bug in APFS where the storage is not being reported properly, or Apple made up the story that it was by design. Bottom line is that Apple doesn't seem to be playing straight with us over this, which makes one wonder what else they may be doing. But the good news is that there are not a lot of protests in the internet universe about running out of memory, so no reason to storm Apple headquarters, yet. [/QUOTE]
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