WindowServer: (CoreDisplay) [com.apple.CoreDisplay:default] [DEBUG] spamming my console and doing excessive amounts of disk activity

Macmini8,1 (2018) running up to date 10.14.6 OSX Mojave:


My console is getting absolutely destroyed and followed with 'WindowServer: (CoreDisplay) [com.apple.CoreDisplay:default] [DEBUG]' messages and doing excessive amounts of disk activity. The following set of messages are spammed hundreds of times every few seconds:



I have researched this issue online extensively but unfortunately besides two similar threads, I've found nothing even on the issue:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/mojave-console-spammed-by-windowserver.298041/

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/390492/windowserver-is-eating-lots-of-cpu-cant-work-out-why


I did all the suggestions offered there but no luck. I've done an SMC and PRAM reset. I found that the terminal command sudo log config --process="process ID#" --mode "level:off" stops the console spam, but it only works until reset and doesn't actually correct whatever the issue that's causing the messages to occur.


I confirmed that this happens when an HDMI or USBC-HDMI cable is plugged in to the Mini. If I don't have any video connections to the Mini and remote in and check the console, the messages stop. The moment I plug a cable back in again, they start. I've tested it with 3 different monitors and HDMI cables.


This constant log spam is causing my Mini to get warm and doing continuous disk writing.


Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening, how to stop it, or at least properly disable those logs?

Mac mini, macOS 10.14

Posted on Feb 16, 2021 11:05 AM

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