photoanalysisd taking large amounts of cpu

I have 871 photos and after 2 weeks photoanalysis is alsways running and taking large amounts of cpu space. Yes, i can open Photos and it does help for a little while, but then comes back when i minimize.

Please, please what can be done to stop photoanlysisd?

Appear that it is never done with 871 photos? when i go to bed, it appears to be running at 50%-98% of cpu resource. probably goes all night every night since i upgraded OS.

the process continues to take up memory space after 2 plus weeks. only 871 photos. yes, it pauses after opening photos app.

Seriously what can i do to stop this resource hog? please

Its like it never stops, except when opening photo app

I don't recall seeing anything in the Settings or Photos Preferences to disable this feature -- is there a way to turn it off?

It's normal for that process to take a long time. The amount of time is a function of the number of photographs in your Photos library.

Happened with me. Stopped after several hours. I assume it was reorganising/analysing the library somehow.

My informal testing suggest an estimate of approximately 1 hour per 1000 photographs, if you are not actively using the Mac during that time.

None that I have found. None reported so far that I can find. I've sent Apple some feedback.

26000 in 48 hours so far. So I'm in for a few more days of processing.

Thanks for the link, EricDu.

I'll send my feedback today.

Does anyone know if deleting the Photo app will stop this photoanalysisd nonsense?

Exactly - I don't use it, don't need it - but it's going to take another 10 hours. It was the same in iPhoto, why on earth can't you turn this off?

Totally Agree with you!

Are you sure it died because of this?

Changed my mind. Clearly this issue is impacting lots of people worse than it impacted me.

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist

Pasting this into Terminal worked for me. Instant halt of the process. my 27" imac is back to low-res gaming! 😁