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Even NT4 handles memory pressure than modern day Linux. It's just not a fair comparison; Linux has never dealt with userspace OOM well. As for macOS... https:

by p_ing 5mo ago

Even NT4 handles memory pressure than modern day Linux. It's just not a fair comparison; Linux has never dealt with userspace OOM well. As for macOS... https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1njf1aj/bravo_apple_the_new_calculator_even_has_a_memory/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1njf1aj/bravo_apple_... https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1nxh08n/impressive_memory_leak_on_tahoe_2601/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1nxh08n/impressive_m... https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1jo5pnq/passwords_app_taking_109gb_of_memory/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1jo5pnq/passwords_ap... https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1gkwxe4/how_is_memory_leak_still_a_thing_in_2024_that_too/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1gkwxe4/how_is_memor... https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1seq0ij/freeform_has_a_memory_leak/ https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1seq0ij/freeform_has... There are _plenty_ more. There is some fundamental library leaking given the range of impacted apps.

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sgt 5mo ago
Seeing there are thousands running those apps (incl. Freeform) without memory leaks, it could be something else at play here.
- p_ing 5mo ago
  It's quite clearly a bug and likely not one easy to diagnose or reproduce given the length of time the bug has remained in macOS. Or a fix would be a drastic breaking change. Or Apple doesn't really care, though I doubt that's the case.
  - saagarjha 5mo ago
    It seems rather easy to diagnose actually any of those users could use the heap profiling tools that ship with the OS