systemstats memory leak since Monterey 12.3

Has the Curser in Size been altered from Normal in Accessibility ?

There are still reports appear that this can cause a Memory Leakage

1 - Suggest restarting in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.

2 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.

3 - Does the issue present in this mode ?

4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.

5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.

6 - If after performing each of the above steps is the order that have been presents  and still have issues - please advise for possible further assistance

refer to below running M1 Mac Mini Monterey 12.3.1

I have (or hopefully had) this issue as well on my iMac 24".

My User account was migrated from my MacBook Pro 2016. At time of migration both were running macOS 11. macOS 12 Upgrade was installed to the iMac later - just in case this may make a difference.

I see tons of messages in system.log (mentioning, that ASL is taking over the message)

What I recently did - after these Safe Boot options, which only helped for a short period:

• Removed Docker App and a lot of its components,
• cleaned up some other outdated files and extensions,
• cleaned up the database files created by systemstats (in /private/var/db/systemstats/, check output in Terminal using "systemstats --list-files" or "ls -l /private/var/db/systemstats/*")
• rebooted my iMac.

Since then (yesterday - using sleep mode overnight) CPU and Memory usage seems to be fine - I hope it continues this way.

Of course I do not know, what solved the problem. A few days earlier I forced re-indexing my internal volume, which did not affect the issue. Potentially some systemstats DB files were migrated from the older Mac and systemstats had a really hard time to deal with them. Right now "systemstats --list-files" does not give any output, "ls /private/var/db/systemstats/*" gives several files,

Maybe this is helping some of you - and maybe helps Apple to fix the issue. Improved log rotation or discarding older files might be an improvement. Also sharing of Usage data with Apple is disabled on my machine. Maybe systemstats is therefore piling up more data than it can handle, because it would only remove the data locally after sharing it with Apple.

Try booting to Safe Mode. That boot up takes minutes and clears caches and other things that may resolve your problem.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

A lot of times just boot to Safe Mode followed by normal boot resolves problems.

Since the Safe Mode done much earlier has not helped >>

There could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.

If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.

If after performing each of the above steps is the order that have been presents  and still have issues - please advise for possible further assistance.

wolfii2 wrote:

Cursor settings are Default.

Update to 12.4 didn't help to solve the situation.

FWIW, I have 4 Macs running Monterey. 3 of which are on 24/7. I checked all three. The systemstats process never exceeds 5MB on any of them. Something you have installed is causing a problem apparently.

Install EtreCheck and post the report. Allow Full Disk Access.

https://etrecheck.com/

Use the Additional Text icon to paste in the report.

Has these at least attempted the Create a New User account suggested earlier to Test if the issue is is User Account or System Wide issue.

Very much agree with previous suggestion.

Etrecheck

Suggest downloading the Application Etrecheck directly from a well Respected ASC Contributor. And Safe to use.

The application is free or paid from added features. 

Run the application with Full Disc Access ( Security & Privacy - Full Disc Access ).

It will take a Snap Shot -  both the hardware and software.

 The Report will Not Reveal Any Personal Information. 

Post back the Full Report - copy and paste - using the Additional Text Icon ( 3rd Icon to last )

We can have a look at the report for possible issues and may have possible suggestions to resolve the issues.

mrkvn wrote:

• Same problem here.

Please post an EtreCheck report.

Please take notice, for good Forum communications, you are replying to yourself.

That is ok but does create confusion as to whom you are really replying to.

To correct my earlier posting regarding Curser - it should have been Change Colour of Curser and not Size.

Sorry or inaccurate advise 😔

(posted my mistake)

Two things

1 - Curser is in the Normal and Default Colour ?

2 - Still running MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.3?

There have been tow additional updates since then. 12.3.1 and latest 12.4 as of May 16, 2022

Same problem here.

• Cursor with default settings
• macOS 12.4
• Hardware: Macbook Pro 14" 2021, M1 Pro
• None of the above mentioned tricks helped