systemstats memory leak since Monterey 12.3

Since update to Monterey 12.3 (also 12.3.1) the process "systemstats" from time to time starts to consume more and more memory until I kill it forcefully with

sudo killall systemstats

Memory consumption exceeded the available memory of my Mac (16GB) already several times, leading to bad response times of the whole machine and huge amounts of swap usage. After killing the process, swap usage immediately decreases.

Any idea?

Thanks a lot

Wolfgang

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.3

Posted on May 5, 2022 1:31 AM

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Owl-53

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Posted on May 5, 2022 2:34 AM

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

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