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I've seen enough people talking about it that I don't believe it is unique. I check my activity a couple times a day, and there doesn't appear to be any correl

I've seen enough people talking about it that I don't believe it is unique. I check my activity a couple times a day, and there doesn't appear to be any correlation between use and control center randomly taking >1GB of memory. I could for instance check when all apps are closed and it's memory usage is high but then after a long day of work it's still floating around 30MB. I'm baffled at what the issue actually is but control center appears to be processing a lot more data now as all media seems to pass through it in some way.

marcellus23 5y ago
Control Center is also built using SwiftUI I believe. SwiftUI still has a lot of rough edges especially on Macs, I wonder if that's the issue?
- ksec 5y ago
  Basically my suspicious as well. I did report lots of SwiftUI apps were using less memory when I started Monterey. But over a few weeks of use I see a lot of memory creep up once you left them opened. Apple Music sitting idle at 4GB memory.
Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
Is the background apps closed as well? I wonder if you have a background app that are constantly using or interacting with the system that Command Center need to keep it updated? Honestly, I am just throwing out possible idea. I recalled there was an issue with Google Play service consuming higher usage than other apps when Play is not in focus. Turns out it is apps that are using Google Play services for GCD or GSM, causing wake lock issues. The reason why they are seeing the higher usage because the Google Play services is the one that are interacting with the system and the network and it is the third party app that initiate the call which put Google Play service as scapegoat. Unfortunately, Android phone does not have a way to separate them. I wonder if this also applies in macOS. I remember I had a issue with Windows service that are consuming a high cpu usage which is abnormal. I ran malware and antivirus scanning and come up clean. It still didn't explain why the service is so high. So I used ProcMon (Process Monitor) to keep a log of what is interacting with the service. It took me a while to filter it out because it have 100 new entries every second for that service. Found out it that third party app that are hitting the service hard, I assume the app was misbehaving and caused this. So I force closed the app and restart it, it went back to normal. I wonder if macOS have process monitor for checking this out?
- throwntoday 5y ago
  Yes I keep very few apps open on my laptop and zero are backgrounded. I suppose that's why I'm only leaking around 1GB where as some people I have seen are seeing control center take upwards of 3GB.

marcellus23 5y ago

Control Center is also built using SwiftUI I believe. SwiftUI still has a lot of rough edges especially on Macs, I wonder if that's the issue?

ksec 5y ago
Basically my suspicious as well. I did report lots of SwiftUI apps were using less memory when I started Monterey. But over a few weeks of use I see a lot of memory creep up once you left them opened. Apple Music sitting idle at 4GB memory.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

Is the background apps closed as well? I wonder if you have a background app that are constantly using or interacting with the system that Command Center need to keep it updated? Honestly, I am just throwing out possible idea. I recalled there was an issue with Google Play service consuming higher usage than other apps when Play is not in focus. Turns out it is apps that are using Google Play services for GCD or GSM, causing wake lock issues. The reason why they are seeing the higher usage because the Google Play services is the one that are interacting with the system and the network and it is the third party app that initiate the call which put Google Play service as scapegoat. Unfortunately, Android phone does not have a way to separate them. I wonder if this also applies in macOS. I remember I had a issue with Windows service that are consuming a high cpu usage which is abnormal. I ran malware and antivirus scanning and come up clean. It still didn't explain why the service is so high. So I used ProcMon (Process Monitor) to keep a log of what is interacting with the service. It took me a while to filter it out because it have 100 new entries every second for that service. Found out it that third party app that are hitting the service hard, I assume the app was misbehaving and caused this. So I force closed the app and restart it, it went back to normal. I wonder if macOS have process monitor for checking this out?

throwntoday 5y ago
Yes I keep very few apps open on my laptop and zero are backgrounded. I suppose that's why I'm only leaking around 1GB where as some people I have seen are seeing control center take upwards of 3GB.