windowsever is the top user of RAM and after about a week brings my system down to a crawl. I have reset NVRAM and PRAM and that only helped for a few days. It does not go down when I close apps and I use default settings for my display and never use and external display.
Any ideas how I can resolve it?
macOS is up to date.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0
Boot into Safe Mode according to Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
Have you installed or run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?
Boot into Safe Mode according to Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
Have you installed or run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?
How often do you reboot your Mac? I shut down every night and boot up in the morning. Having an SSD makes the boot tine very short and not objectionable. Rebooting normally clears out temporary system and application cache and swap files. It definitely helps in general overall performance. You might try for a while to see if the window server RAM builds up like before or remains low.
A Safe Mode boot runs some fix routines. Then reboot normally and see if the problem persists or is gone.
I'm getting some of that also. My CPU PECL Die temp goes up every so often with the fans ramping up. They go down quickly but it usually when I have a lot of windows open in the browser.
We need to report it to Apple via Feedback - macOS - Apple.
I have been rebooting every day since this issue arises. Before that I would only reboot on updates or when I thought of it. Never had an issue.
safemode did "solve" the issue, but I think that is just from the restart. Restart has always cleared it.
I don't have any of those apps installed.
gotcha, thank you so much. I will see how it goes over the next few days.
After a few days windowserver RAM usage creeps back up and never lowers. I can close all apps and it remains right about where it was with the apps open.
That looks like what my virtual memory is. I noticed that with a lot of windows open in Safari there's a lot of CPU use and memory use by my browser.
The problem with my screenshot is it is about 3 minutes after rebooting my computer. windowserver gets up to around 3GB.
I get abut the same after 3-5 minutes on:
But my memory pressure graph is way down in the green:
So I don't worry about it.
My pressure graph is low as well, but my computer slows to a crawl until I reboot. windowserver is always very high and never releases memory.
windowserver using a lot of RAM
