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Michael
02/19/2026, 3:22 PM
I'm testing OrbStack, coming from Docker Desktop on macOS, and loving it so far! It's provided a much needed performance boost. Thank you! I'm still battling high memory usage with OrbStack and my Docker containers though. As you can see in the screenshots, the memory usage of OrbStack Helper as seen in Activity Monitor on macOS is quite high, even if "Real Mem" is not soo big. The memory pressure is high though and the sum of the other processes shouldn't lead to such high memory consumption and pressure. Am I potentially setting things up incorrectly? Is Real mem what I should be worried about and the memory pressure can be ignored? Thank you!
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MinMidMax
04/08/2026, 1:37 PM
I’m seeing the same issue with Orbstack Helper with high memory pressure. I’m on the latest Orbstack version. Did you ever find a solution for this?
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