Your Mac unexpectedly restarts, and a little after logging in you see a Panic Alert. Before sending that to Apple, save a copy and follow this guidance, including how to read a panic log.
memory leak
A problem from the first 128K Mac, virtual memory was available from 1987 but only with A/UX. It wasn’t really sorted out until Mac OS X, and now it’s all Unified anyway.
Equipping LogUI with controls to get log extracts from arbitrary periods in the past reveals two shortcomings: high memory use, and failure to release that.
It turns out that the Finder is just retaining all those image thumbnails in its memory for 2-3 days after you last browsed them. Is this what we want?
Two memory leaks in the Finder, inability to change password for encrypted sparse bundles, and a crashing bug in Contacts. Detailed and reported to Apple.
How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it.
With one leak in the Finder’s Gallery view, it’s time for another, in Icon view. This is an old leak, that has affected older versions of macOS too, but still hasn’t been fixed.
Select groups of many JPEG images in Finder’s gallery view, and the Finder’s memory grows steadily until you’re forced to relaunch it.
How to tell whether an app has a memory leak, what to do about it, and the differences from a kernel memory leak.
How to capture the panic log, immediate actions likely to help make a diagnosis, and how to read the panic log.
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