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PC Tech Magazine: Why WindowServer Consumes Your Mac’s Resources (And How to Fix It) WindowServer is the link between your applications and your display. Its primary job is to draw everything you see on the screen. Every time an app wants to display a window, an icon, or an animation, ...
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BGR: What Is WindowServer On macOS And Why Does It Consume So Much Memory? What Is WindowServer On macOS And Why Does It Consume So Much Memory? Over the last few weeks, my iMac has become extremely sluggish and unresponsive, attributed to high cpu utilization by windowserver. It takes several minutes (I've timed it) for the login screen to ...
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This weekend, developer Loren Brichter released a website claiming that Google Chrome for Mac — or more specifically its auto-update mechanism — was causing the WindowServer process on macOS to ...