macOS 12 Monterey appear to have a retentiveness management bug that can cause the system of rules to run out of free memory . If you encounter the bug you ’ll have to start force - quitting program or boot your Mac .
9to5Macreported the emergence yesterday ( 1 November ) , but it was recognize and account on Twitter as early on as 28 October . It manifests in the unexpected show of an alert message reading ‘ Your system has run out of covering retention . ’
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The bug has appear on both thenew MacBook Promodels that decease on sale last week and older computer . Here at Macworld we ’ve even find out the trouble on an occasional Intel - powered iMac , so it does n’t seem to be restrain to just Apple Silicon machine .
The core of the problem is one app starting to use more and more memory , although the identity of the app in question is not consistent . We ’ve seen paper of Mail , Pages and Final Cut Pro , and in our own display case it was Music which was using many tens of gigabytes .
This is n’t by any means the first issue reported with Monterey : yesterday we covered aproblem with USB hubs . Major new versions of operating systems are often afflict with teething problems , the almost inevitable result of switching from a comparatively small genus Beta - testing user floor to the one thousand thousand of Mac possessor in the state of nature .
you could keep up with the late report microbe – and hopefully news of solution and fixes to the same – in ourmacOS Montereyhub .
This clause originally appeared onMacworld Sweden . Translation ( usingDeepL ) and additional reportage by David Price .
