The lsd process on my Activity Monitor is suddenly having a huge bit of consumption on my RAM. Typically around 19-24GB. I've tried the various Terminal commands to supposedly fix this, but it's doing this still. I'm on a Mac Pro 5.1, on 10.14.6. This is a recent problem.
Would love any advice, thanks.
Mac Pro, macOS 10.14
You have un-stored Time machine snapshots. Connect your backup drive and let time machine complete. By design, it works at low priority in the background, so as not to interfere with your important work.
ETRECHECK
the Etrecheck Report
That is not likely unless you deliberately move them there, say, to reduce the amount of space on the Boot drive.
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In the long run, you may want to consider making a Trusted Backup (or two) and ERASING your boot drive and installing MacOS from scratch. That will allow that database to be rebuilt from the stock-standard MacOS installed version, then your enabled Applications added one at a time.
Your boot disk is Full. Nothing works right when that happens.
Do you have Applications stored outside of the /Applications folder on the boot drive? that is a Bad Idea®
So I've now got over 70GB of space but it's still using over 5GB now. As for the Time Machine back-ups, it's left plugged in all day, it recently just completed a back-up. Not sure why this is suddenly happening to me.
Hi, as stated in my original post, I've tried the console commands to no avail. I've also tried the Etrecheck and it's done nothing. Anything you'd recommend I do? Thanks
Oops, my bad. Thanks.
Ah I have around 15GB left, would you say that's still full enough to cause issues?
Hmmm it's possible. Is there a quick and easy way to check? Though I've never had this issue in the past and I've not had any significant changes on my computer.
Etrecheck is a "discovery" Utility. It was never intended to FIX Anything.
If Etrecheck report did not help you discover the reason for your problems, post the report here by using the instructions built into the utility and the "additional text" icon in the reply footer:
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That may not look very full to you, but that is too full for reliable operation.
Your Mac needs 9GB to start up from a cold start.
If you went to install Bug Sur at this moment, it would require 50GB free.
read Luis Sequeira1 answer here:
lsd process is consuming over 1GB of memory. Any idea why and how to reduce it?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250050422?answerId=250085966022#250085966022
Sorry I'm a bit confused, which part of the Activity Monitor process would you like me to paste? Thanks
lsd Process on my Activity Monitor is suddenly using huge amounts of RAM (19-24GB)
