[paulddraper]

Are you running a VM?

That's the only way I can use 17,179,869,184 bytes of memory.

[justinator]

No. The largest memory hogs are FireFox, Photoshop, and Lightroom Classic.

[piva00]

That's rather odd to be eating all your RAM, I use my personal M1 16GB with Firefox, Affinity Photo and Capture One all the time to process RAW, never had issues running out of memory. Neither when producing music on Ableton Live and/or Bitwig.

[paulddraper]

That's surprising.

36 megapixels RAW is like 50 megabytes.