Repeated "Your System Has Run out of Application Memory" on macOS about qbittorrent HOT 4 OPEN

It happened again. I started ProtonVPN - started Qbit - 1 Gb then 2 GB and then eventually 5 GB. Then all of the sudden Qbit downloads pause - and then the memory shoots up to - in the case 84.88 GB.

This all occurs in this than a minute.

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Hello - Qbit has been running without issue - though I believe the reason for (run away) memory issues on my Mac was due to too many torrents in my que. But If no torrents are being processed why does this cause the memory to increase so significantly? I had as many torrents in due for weeks - then all of the sudden the memory would all of the sudden balloon to cause my Mac to give me a memory issue.

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Hello - Qbit has been running without issue - though I believe the reason for (run away) memory issues on my Mac was due to too many torrents in my que. But If no torrents are being processed why does this cause the memory to increase so significantly? I had as many torrents in due for weeks - then all of the sudden the memory would all of the sudden balloon to cause my Mac to give me a memory issue.

Have you tried disabling disk cache?

Advanced -> Disk Cache: Looks like it defaults to -1 (unlimited). Try setting it to 0 (off).

I use qbittorrent-nox on a linux system and once I disabled disk cache, the RAM usage dropped significantly -- as expected. The clients with 20-25k torrents are only using <1.2GB.

I installed qbit 4.6.4 on my Mac to test disk cache, added an Ubuntu torrent. With the default, unlimited disk cache, the ram climbed from 120MB to gigs -- consistent with the amount downloaded, reflecting it's being cached. I set cache to '0' and the RAM usage dropped back to 120MB. I know you said you didn't have any active torrents, but try disabling the disk cache if you haven't already.

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@oharag1111 Can you please provide more qBittorrent info - libtorrent version etc.

It also seems that this may be specific to Sonoma

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