wallpapervideoextension in Sonoma uses lots of RAM and CPU

I've noticed that the WallpaperVideoExtension is using upto 1GB of RAM and chewing up plenty of CPU under Sonoma. I have to use Activity Monitor every few hours to kill the process.

I'm not using any of the Apple video wallpapers/screen savers, and haven't d/l any of them.


Has anyone else seen this issue? Any ideas as to how to permanently kill the extension (set 'defaults' command in Terminal would be ideal).

Any help appreciated

E


ps Mac Mini M1 16/256


Mac mini, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 4, 2023 8:01 PM

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Posted on Feb 5, 2024 8:52 AM

I've created a script to kill the wallpaper extension every 15 min because this is out of control, I don't even use this thing.



at


/Applications/Scripts/wallpapperkiller.sh


with content, uncomment second line if the ImageExtension also bothers you with high cpu usage.


pgrep WallpaperVideoExtension | xargs kill -9
# pgrep WallpaperImageExtension | xargs kill -9
date > /Applications/Scripts/wallpaperkiller.log


then, run


crontab -e


and add the following line


*/15 * * * * /Applications/Scripts/wallpapperkiller.sh



you can also run this script manually if you want, each other time


more info about crontab can be found here https://medium.com/@justin_ng/how-to-run-your-script-on-a-schedule-using-crontab-on-macos-a-step-by-step-guide-a7ba539acf76

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