Adobe 2024 memory leak

Hey, I'm in the last few days with  rendering my 3d scenes for an exam paper. Each time I try to render, after little while, all things stop. RAM went up to 99% and PC is standing still. I waited for 1 hour, after some beeps this little Adobe Window comes up.  

I tried both buttons, reinstall and abort. But it ever make my renderwork impossible again. How can i get rid of this immediately and sustainably? 

Similar problem, thankfully I'm on MacOS so it doesn't actually crash. But I was wondering why my memory pressure was so high. I checked and Photoshop was using over 50gb of ram, I had no images open that was just Photoshop running with a blank window! The funny thing is they finally seemed to fix Lightroom's memory problems, now Photoshop is doing what Lightroom used to do

I encountered a similar problem in Photoshop CS6, which I still keep in addition to my current Creative Cloud subscription.

I had around 22,000 JPG images, which I was simply loading, and reducing in size, and then cropping before saving.

Running the batch script on the each source file in turn, opening it, performing the steps, saving them into a new folder and then closing, I noticed memory usage creeping up. Within a couple of hours, my PC was at 100% RAM, and Photoshop ground to a halt with an error message.

To process the remaining files, I then had to reboot the computer completely, and re-run the batch script on the remaining files.

This definitely has all the hallmarks of a memory leak. OK, that was CS6, which is now about 11 years old. However, today I have been having related issues running the newest version of Photoshop 2024. I'm still investigating, and will probably raise a fresh post if/when I get to the bottom of things.

FWIW, I also have had similar apparent leaks in my copy of Photoshop 7.

"maxes out even with one file open"

One example: converting to Smart Object will keep original file in background so you can always go back to original or start over or change some filter even after saving, closing and reopening. No free lunch people use to say.

I just had a bit of a shock/surprise when checking my system.  I hadn't shut it down for at least a week, and had a few windows open, but I was using 40Gb (of 64Gb) and I almost never see that.  Even when shutting every thting down, I was still using 12Gb.

I restarted and with just Chrome running I am showing 8.3Gb

Creating a 50,000 pixel square document didn't make much difference, but I have a 17Gb temp file on the Scratch drive

Filling the 50k doc with noise took memory to 24Gb and closing _all_ documents did not release any of that memory.

I waas going to Purge All but that option was greyed out with no open documents, so still 24Gb used.

I had to close Photoshop to get that memory back.

This is not someing I'd be looking at or even thinking about, but it doesn't feel right to me.  Just to be thorough, I opened PS and recreated the big docs and used Edit > Purge > All, and it made no difference.  I was back with 24Gb which dropped to 8.2Gb when I closed PS.  Definitely not what I expected.

 Please post Help > System Info, and show screenshots from Task Manager.

Photoshop's memory requirements will by nature be very much higher than most other software. It's also frequently misunderstood that PS by design does not release memory whan you close a file. That memory will be recycled and reused, to avoid requesting it from the OS over and over.