Memory leak in Windows?

[koppah]

When running Windows ARM in Parallels, I'm seeing the system bounce up to 100% memory usage and stay there, then come back and immediately jump back up, even with no apps running. This is causing Windows to slow to a crawl, and I can see that the Parallels Desktop process in MacOS is using over 12GB of memory, even though my system only has 8GB. Additionally, this happens if I increase the VM's allowed memory from 4GB to 6GB.
It seems like there may be a Parallels driver that's leaking a lot of memory in Windows and causing it to run terribly.

 

[DmitrijG]

https://forum.parallels.com/threads/high-ram-usage-for-vm.353483/#post-886407 - In this post described helped me solution.

 

[Maria@Parallels]

https://forum.parallels.com/threads/high-ram-usage-for-vm.353483/#post-886407 - In this post described helped me solution.

Could you check your inbox for more information please?

 

[NickK7]

I'm seeing an incorrect value for memory speed in Task Manager of my Parallels VM. System Report shows 2667 MHz while Windows Task Manager is only showing 667MHz.

Update, I found a different thread related to my issue, but this sadly doesn't fix the issue for me

 

[AlexanderN6]

Confirming that I am also having this issue. Brand new M1 Max, running Windows 11 set for 8GM ram. Showing up as 16GB in Activity Monitor.

 

[AlexM42]

Any news on this issue? I just installed Paralles for the first time and am surprised to find it uses twice as much memory as assigned to it.
Even more surprised to find out it's been a reported issue for more than half a year...

 

[JakebM]

Hi, any updates on this issue? I can't even run one program without it running extremely slow due to ram memory usage being unreasonable high.

 

[McallenT@P]

Hi, any updates on this issue? I can't even run one program without it running extremely slow due to ram memory usage being unreasonable high.

Hello, Pleaser refer to this KB article: https://kb.parallels.com/112091 and check. Thanks, Parallels Team.

 

[david107]

I experience this issue running Linux clients in Parallels.
It runs usually at 3-4 times the ram usage compared to the actual resource usage in the VM.
I have tried everything in the KB article and my MAC has 16+G ram and I run the VM with virtually nothing else running in the background.
Right now I am typing this from the Linux client running an XFCE desktop currently sitting at 650M ram usage in the VM, but parallels is running it with 7.5 Gigs!!