Memory is not being freed on VZ

^{Originally posted by **Muzosh** October 10, 2024}
I ran some memory intensive task today and it maxed out at 8GB (which was defined in my config). I was this in MacOS Activity Monitor next to a "Virtual Machine Service for limactl" process.

However, once those memory intensive tasks finished, the process stayed at 8GB indefinitely (until colima restart), slowing down my host Mac.

Is this intended behavior? I would expect the process to jump down to some idle value (around ~800-1000MB after fresh start).