Q: Processes APPNOS and APPTS are eating up my RAM and making my computer very slow.
Hello, I have an iMac (late 2012) 2.7 Ghz intel core i5 with 8GB of RAM. Lately my computer has been extremely slow, and basically unusable for the past 4 days. After numerous times of shutting on and off, I was finally able to open Activity Monitor after around 25 minutes of loading. I was shocked to find that the processes APPNOS and APPTS were consuming 13GB of RAM each, with a total of 27GB of RAM being used even though my computer only has 8GB of RAM. I force quitted the two processes and my computer was running normal again, however these processes keep coming back every time my computer sleeps. I hope someone knows what these processes are and how to stop them from popping up or eating more RAM than I have.
For what its worth, updating to macOS Sierra from El Capitan did not do anything.
Thank you,
NMitchem
iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12)
Posted on Sep 23, 2016 7:30 PM
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Posted on Sep 23, 2016 9:22 PM

