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by p_ing 50 days ago
Even NT4 handles memory pressure than modern day Linux. It's just not a fair comparison; Linux has never dealt with userspace OOM well.

As for macOS...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1njf1aj/bravo_apple_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1nxh08n/impressive_m...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1jo5pnq/passwords_ap...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1gkwxe4/how_is_memor...

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1seq0ij/freeform_has...

There are _plenty_ more. There is some fundamental library leaking given the range of impacted apps.
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sgt 50 days ago
Seeing there are thousands running those apps (incl. Freeform) without memory leaks, it could be something else at play here.
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p_ing 50 days ago
It's quite clearly a bug and likely not one easy to diagnose or reproduce given the length of time the bug has remained in macOS. Or a fix would be a drastic breaking change.

Or Apple doesn't really care, though I doubt that's the case.

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saagarjha 49 days ago
It seems rather easy to diagnose actually any of those users could use the heap profiling tools that ship with the OS
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