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FuzzyApple

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Original poster
Mar 15, 2023
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My iMac crashes when it runs out of application memory but there are NO Apps open.
This is the message in the Activity Monitor-
Process name "knowledgeconstructd" is taking 120GB of memory.
How do I trace the source of this memory gobble to turn it off?
 

FuzzyApple

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 15, 2023
2
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I turned off Siri from my iMac 2017 with Ventura and the memory drainage is improved. Thank you for that suggestion.
I also have significant memory drain from something named "suggestd" in the Activity Monitor. What app uses that so I can switch it off too. Thanks in advance.
 

bogdanw

macrumors 603
Mar 10, 2009
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The command "man suggestd" in Terminal returns:
"suggestd – daemon that processes user content in order to detect contacts, events, named entities, etc."

With SIP disabled (csrutil disable from Terminal in Recovery), it can be stopped and disabled:
Code:
launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.suggestd
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.suggestd

Apple's documentation about SIP https://developer.apple.com/documen...ling_and_enabling_system_integrity_protection

Launch agents/daemons that can be disabled in Ventura https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/c99e5b2eefad19932554a713384dcc70
 
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