Memory management getting worse

Question

So I've been using the same machine, working in the same file sized roughly 3k by 5k, making concept art for 2 years now, not much has changed in terms of how I worked over the years. Photoshop always hogs any extra memory I have on my machine, it like a memory leak. When I start working and load a file it's fine, as I work on the same file after a few hours Photoshop just takes over more and more of the system memory until it's all used up. It used to not cause problems, but now, especially the last few months I've been having to close the program, then end the photoshop.exe file in the task manager daily to clear the memory. Now it's getting to the point where I have to do it 2 or 3 times a day to keep my system from halting. It doesn't seem to matter how I set the memory usage of the program it just eventually takes up the rest of the free memory (16gb of it) over time. It feels like a memory leak. It's getting frustrating, and slowing me down at work. I see on the forum that it's a common issue. From my experience over the years Photoshop always hogs up the memory over time, would be nice to get this fixed.

Answer 1

We check Photoshop pretty closely for leaks, and fix them.
Photoshop should only allocate memory up to the limit you set in Preferences.
But bugs in drivers, the OS, or third party plugins can leak memory.
No, leaks in Photoshop are not a common issue. Misunderstandings of memory management, or the aforementioned third party issues are common.