Pages consumed over 400GB of RAM!
Short version: I was busy typing up a proposal in Pages, which had embedded sheets from Numbers, nothing too fancy.
When I suddenly got the out of memory error:
Notice how Pages consumed 435GB of RAM!
Long story: I bought this iMac in Feb 2022. I've had continuous crashes on it. I have updated the OS everytime an update goes out, however I still experienced crashes. I thought it was the dreaded GPU problem with the video card and I do have multiple monitors.
Finally, after much suffering and pain, I finally figured out trying to reset the NVRAM, and booting up into safe mode.
Happy to say, so far, my system hadn't crashed in 9 days.
So... maybe it wasn't any of this hardware.. maybe it was Pages all along? Because I always have it open, and I've just never gotten this out of memory error before.
In any event, there shouldn't be any reason that Pages uses half a terrabyte!
I ended up killing off Pages, getting my RAM back, all without a crash.
So, hopefully, somebody at Apple Apps/OS engineering sees this post. I'm happy to provide any logs or data to help diagnose this run way memory leak in Pages.
PS: I can send the offending document to a verified Apple employee... I won't post it here.
Larry
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