Hello, I have a Universalaccessd process in my activity monitor, it sometimes takes up to 5GB of memory. Does anyone know what it is? thank you.
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
Finkorn wrote:
Thank you, now the question is why it uses up to 5gb of memory. I only have gesture zoom on
Try turning your "gesture zoom" off and compare your results
Look at memory pressure...(?) is it causing you an issue?
View memory usage in Activity Monitor on Mac - Apple Support
Finkorn wrote:
Hello, I have a Universalaccessd process in my activity monitor, it sometimes takes up to 5GB of memory. Does anyone know what it is? thank you.
I suspect adobe related...
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/change-universal-access-preferences-setting.html
or
Universalaccessd
Apple Universal Access is a component of the Mac OS X operating system that provides computing abilities to people with visual impairment, hearing impairment, or physical disability.
You can see more from the man page:
man universalaccessd | more
Thank you, now the question is why it uses up to 5gb of memory. I only have gesture zoom on
no change occurred, I will try to do a reinstall macos, but thanks for the help
Memory