I think this specific memory leak is only in Monterey. I definitely have to manually kill Control Center every few days otherwise it'll be using 20GB+ of RAM. Supposedly it's fixed in the 12.1 beta though, so hopefully Apple releases a fix for it soon.

The author specifically mentions that he is using macOS Big Sur: "That's extremely similar to the MacBook Pro and Monterey issues I’ve read this week — except I’m still running Big Sur."

It really highlights the value of the fleet-wide profiling that ChromeOS enjoys. There’s a dashboard somewhere of what’s using all the space (and time) for ChromeOS users in the wild. But HN just actually hates telemetry more than it hates memory leaks.

I'm running 12.0.1 and Control Center is using ~65 MB, with an uptime of 12 days. This is on an M1 MBA. What type of machine do you have? I wonder if there's some specific software that causes/exacerbates the issue.

Seconded. M1 Air, 8GB, Big Sur and no such issues for ~1 year.

Maybe a leak in a Max/Pro-specific kernel component? I assume Control Center depends on some hardware-specific kernel modules.