6/24/2023 0 Comments Windowserver in activity monitor![]() ![]() When you sign back in, macOS will automatically launch WindowServer in the background again and the cycle continues. You can’t use your Mac without this process running in the background.įorce-quitting WindowServer will close all active applications, refresh the operating system, and log you out of your Mac. You may be tempted to force-quit WindowServer if you find it using an insane amount of CPU resources in the Activity Monitor, but you shouldn’t. You should only worry about WindowServer when it overburdens the CPU, raises fan noise, or slows down your Mac’s performance. If anything, it helps applications and other system processes function correctly. WindowServer on Mac is a harmless system process. Asides from providing graphical support to applications, some background applications without a user-facing interface also rely heavily on the WindowServer. The process will stay active in the background, powering the graphical/visual interface of all applications until you log out or shut down your Mac. MacOS starts WindowServer automatically when you log in to your Mac. Every single thing that comes on your Mac’s screen was made possible by the WindowsServer. The WindowServer also manages other important system graphical user interfaces (GUI) like the Dock and Menu Bar. The only panic saved was a crash of the SIMs.WindowsServer is a central component of the Mac operating system that’s responsible for projecting the visual interface of applications on your screen. You have so exceeded the amount of real RAM in your Mac that it has been forced to swap 1.21GB on the drive (over a far-too-long-between-restarts 17 days period). You should launch and run these ONLY on-demand, otherwise, they punish performance. OneDrive and the non-Mac-native file sync apps that were ported to the Mac consume vast amounts of resources, because they read your files non-stop, looking for up to the second changes. Stop using that and switch to FireFox or Safari, either of which are faster and less resource intensive. You appear to be running Chrome (and Chrome Helper renderer) notorious Resource Hogs. Since your memory is small, these should be run on-demand only, and you should restart after their use to clear them from memory. You have gaming Helper programs (EA AND Steam) always running. A third-party "cleaned" Mac is a SLOW Mac. Since Mavericks, MacOS manages its own cacheing and storage far better than any third-party app can. ![]() You don't need Android emulation running all the time unless you are using it all the time. ![]() Pick ONE of VirtualBox and Parallels and remove the others. You have extensions for BlueStacks and intel.haxm Android emulation, VirtualBox, and Parallels Desktop as well as MacOS. You appear to be running four operating systems simultaneously. Time Machine backup out-of-date - The last Time Machine backup is over 10 days old. That is not a lot of computer for the very demanding work you appear to be doing.Īnything that appears on this list needs immediate attention. You have a 13-in MacBook Pro (older2019 version, Two thunderbolt ports) with only 8GB RAM and a 250GB drive running an older version of Big Sur (not fully up-to-date). ![]()
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