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Sounds very similar to the macOS 10.15.6 release, which had a horrible kernel memory leak. It was especially visible when running virtual machines. After a few
by 0x0 5y ago
Sounds very similar to the macOS 10.15.6 release, which had a horrible kernel memory leak. It was especially visible when running virtual machines. After a few hours the kernel memory pressure was so high that it would oom kill every usermode process one by one, including critical system processes.
That one had me yearning for a linux grub menu entry for "previous kernel".
- herpderperator 5y agoIs kernel memory pressure different to the normal memory pressure? Or is it the same thing?
- tticvs 5y agoIt's fundamentally the same thing, but when the kernel is refuses to deallocate memory you can't just terminate the process, you have to reboot the system.
- 0x0 5y agoThe kernel memory usage would only show up with ever-increasing numbers in "sudo zprint", it wasn't visible in activity monitor