Flurry (wallpaper) process is consuming over 5GB of ram - why?

bsarider wrote:

Today, once again, my 16GB macbook pro has the fans running at full speed, and i have 7GB of process memory swapped out, making my macbook feel like an old windows laptop, or a hovercraft

Investigating why my machine is swapping so aggressively, i found a process i don't recognise at the top of my list

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/9ed56c76-9ff1-4b8d-b874-5dc52523e9d7

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/126a6529-0ce7-4bc5-b8e9-a0db49d62f41

i think this pressure on my ram has only come to my attention recently, possibly after one of the Sonoma upgrades in the last couple of months

i am currently running Sonoma 14.4.1

This appears to be the same issue mentioned in flurry (wallpaper) is using a lot of mem… - Apple Community by larrygrossberg

Your RAM memory pressure is in the green, ie no yellow no red...

If you have an issue with your wall paper— use a static wall paper choice and abandon the resource intensive dynamic background: Add dynamic desktop picture to Safari start page background

or try a different default screensaver if that is your issue.

you can file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

third party — most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

bsarider wrote:

the reported size in the activity monitor memory page does not agree with the stats shown if i examine the process stats - which seems odd

so, is it using 5GB or 38GB ?

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/cce294b0-b15f-4e21-967c-95079d57ca70

ref: Mac OS Sonoma live wallpaper