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