Dell 6K U3224KB Monitor

[dbrewood]

I had to exchange mine. The process was largely pretty smooth. They had a little trouble getting the shipment out, but once they did it was simple. I got a replacement, put mine in that box, affixed the included return label and dropped it at the UPS Store.

Sounds reasonable. I'll look to contact them later today.

Very easy. I called Dell support and had zero hold time, but I had to go through some standard troubleshooting steps with the tech agent before they agreed to send me a new monitor. They also gave me a free label to ship the original monitor back to Dell.

As for packing/unpacking, well, you already know the difficulty of that.

Okay, I was going to try and contact then via the web / email, but based on a what you say I'll give them a call later.

 

[dbrewood]

With macOS Sonoma, over several days, the memory pressure on my Mini would gradually increase until it got into the red zone consistently, and things became very sluggish.

Interesting, I wonder if it can affect other apps as I've had issues with Thunderbird reportedly taking up over 186Gb of memory.

 

[dbrewood]

Thanks all, just been on to Dell UK and a replacement monitor is being organised.

 

[xraydoc]

Interesting, I wonder if it can affect other apps as I've had issues with Thunderbird reportedly taking up over 186Gb of memory.

186 Gigabytes of RAM?

 

[dbrewood]

That is what is typically reported yes... 189Gb actually.

 

[Thyme]

That is what is typically reported yes... 189Gb actually.
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Interesting, I wonder if it can affect other apps as I've had issues with Thunderbird reportedly taking up over 186Gb of memory.

I do think the combination of DDPM and macOS does somehow affect other apps, but I think this is happening on the OS level somehow, e.g., something like OS cache data or storing images of the apps for when they are static, etc. I say this because I didn't have any single app that was obviously using way too much memory like you do (189 GB? Ouch!). Instead, all of my apps and open windows were each using somewhat more memory than normal according to Activity Monitor, and in the aggregate, this high memory use was causing my machine to hit swap a lot. Since uninstalling DDPM, this problem has completely gone away for me. So I suggest trying it for yourself to see if it also solves your memory problem.

Glad to hear you were already able to arrange getting a replacement from Dell!

 

[dbrewood]

Interesting, I'll try working for a while with DDPM disabled and see how it goes.

Indeed the monitor is out for delivery! Very impressive!

 

[dbrewood]

The replacement monitor is all connected up, firmware updated and all is well. The camera and the joystick are all working perfectly.
The old monitor is due to be collected by UPS tomorrow. I'm beyond impressed!

 

[dbrewood]

And indeed the old monitor was collected as promised today by UPS.

 

[xraydoc]

That is what is typically reported yes... 189Gb actually.
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That's some serious memory leak there. Sounds like there's a major bug in that app.

 

[dbrewood]

Indeed, I'm working with the developer to identify the cause if we can.

 

[dbrewood]

That's some serious memory leak there. Sounds like there's a major bug in that app.

Looks like it's a CalDAV bug which stems from Thunderbird itself.

Back on topic..... Does anyone else get the following message, and on checking there is no firmware or software updates. Really annoys me!

 

[Dark-Signature]

The Dell UltraSharp U3224KBA is now below 2.000€!

 

[Udy7000]

The Dell UltraSharp U3224KBA is now below 2.000€!

Where are you from? I tried repeatedly to buy a recently manufactured monitor and there was none. I payed for new and they sent me more than 1 year old monitors in clearly open boxes. That is in Romania. And it was 2250Euro

 

[Dark-Signature]

Where are you from? I tried repeatedly to buy a recently manufactured monitor and there was none. I payed for new and they sent me more than 1 year old monitors in clearly open boxes. That is in Romania. And it was 2250Euro

I saw it here: Dell U3224KBA

 

[tstafford]

For those of you with the Dell 6K who are using BetterDisplay, have you noticed anything different about the brightness? I swear mine is now brighter but not necessarily in a good way. Like the software is boosting it more than it did before.