com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice (Not Responding)
I've noticed that this process becomes unresponsive after using my Mac for a while, usually within a few hours of booting. It seems to occur every day and when I view the process info, I see the 'Recent hangs' value incrementing every few seconds. There doesn't appear to be any performance impact, but it consistently hangs and I'm trying to determine the cause. In fact, I've only noticed it because the process name turns red in activity monitor when this occurs.
Apple's developer documentation says the hiservices subframework "Contains interfaces for accessibility, Internet Config, the pasteboard, the Process Manager, and the Translation Manager".
The xpcservice name suggests its role may be related to process management, but I am not exactly sure what it does or why it stops for seemingly no reason at all. My system is an iMac Pro running Mojave 10.14.3 and I have very few third party applications installed. I am considering a test whereby I will boot the system and not launch any apps, then check back to see if it stops of its own accord with nothing else running.
I would like to determine if the problem is indicative of an issue with a specific application, the operating system or even the computer hardware. If anyone has any insight or similar experience with this I would appreciate your feedback.
Thanks a lot!
iMac Pro, 10.14