Memory endless growth Mac M1

Maybe it is not clear, i am using the photoshop scripting functionality. It is under file--->scripts.

In there i set the source directory and destination directory, set jpeg quality to 8 and that is it, nothing more i can do. Should be photoshop taking care of managing memory so that pc doesn't reboot after a couple of hours of work.

I am just using a photoshop functionality that just doesn't work as it should.

You can also use the app.purge() method to purge the Photoshop cache every n images or when app.freeMemory is below a specified value. This would let you reduce memory footprint dramatically.

app.preferences.imageCacheLevels will let you set those, if you want to do so as part of your script.

One strategy would be to reduce the number of history states from default to one or two before running a script.

I have to say that a scratch file of 80 GB sounds perfectly ordinary to me - if that's what this is; it's not clear from your description or screenshots.

I routinely see scratch files of several hundred GB when working on large files. That's normal, and nothing wrong with Photoshop. The scratch file contains all history states for all open documents. It will be orders of magnitude bigger than your nominal starting file sizes. All this is normal and expected. Photoshop does not purge memory (RAM or scratch disk) until you close the application. But it will be reused and recycled while open.

If you really are low on disk space, set History States to 1. That means you can't go back, but it will dramatically reduce the scratch size.

For scripts and actions, you should write them so that one file closes before the next one opens whenever possible. If many files are open at the same time, scratch size will explode.

Are you sure it is not the script that fails to manage the memory correctly?

This is what it looks like after a couple of hours of work.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/073GPQnRfhwJ8J_ESduDaQf1Q

Being an Adobe domain i tought some of their techs would show up t check probs.

This is a huge memory leak, i have had it since i got my M1, looking around it seems i am not alone, some people has same prob on photoshop, some on lightroom.

I already had an Adobe tech connect to my pc to check but he just reinstalled photoshop like i did a zilion times, obviously problem is still there and has been like this for a year now.

I am using the function script file--->script to convert batches of ARW pics to jpg.

It starts and memory just keeps growing and growing til 80Gb where the system crahes.

You can see it in the clip i attached, it just keeps growing and growing until crash. In the video it is already more than 10Gb memory used and has been working for around half an hour.

Macbook Pro 16gb ram 500gb disk

Photoshop 24.1.1

GPU disabled, if i enable it memory grows faster and faster.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/072X1SqCvAHkWSDmpw4Xmnodg

@Corrado282216293d9h this is an Adobe user to user forum and we all try to help each other out here, using profanity does not help in getting a response, please try to refrain from using inappropriate language on the forum.

Please do not use profanity in posting here. We will try to help you but at this point have no idea what your problem might be.

When you say script, what script? Are you using the Image Processor or??? Batch processing can also be done with Bridge or Lightroom, or a third-party tool such as ImageMagick.

Please post your System info from Photoshop's Help menu so we have a better idea what might be going on, and any crash reports that are generated.