App version: 20.1.0 Computer: MacBook M1 Pro A2442 - 32GB RAM Guest VM OS: Sequoia 15.0.1 Host OS: Sequoia 15.0.0 RAM assigned to Guest VM: Anybody know why I am seeing such high numbers in the activity monitor for the MacOS guest vm. I see 2 processes for the same. One is 8.24 GB which is around how much I assigned to this VM and one with an Apple Icon that just keeps on growing. At one point I saw the number to be 229.5 GB usage. Is that a bug?
I see this problem too. A newly created macOS VM (never logged into after creation), left at the login prompt asks for nearly half of a gigabyte per minute, or 28 Gigs per hour. It is twice as bad if you start up a second macOS VM. Eventually the host macOS starts compressing memory and swapping out to disk and things get very slow.
Some screenshots of memory usage of new macOS VMs never logged in, waiting at login prompt. (M2 Max MBPro 64GB RAM), Parallels v20.1.0 (55732) running on macOS 15.0.1, new VMs created as macOS 15.0.1
One more objservation. The macOS VM must be shut down, not restarted, in order to release all of the memory.
Do we need to pay some where for Parallels team to respond on the issue? Also I am not too sure if this is a parallels issue or the way host macOS is displaying the ram usage. I checked in ccleaner and that doesn't show the high numbers.
This is a Parallels issue. UTM does not leak memory for macOS VMs on Apple Silicon like Parallels 20 does.
