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by rsynnott 892 days ago
One thing to check: are you using iterm? iterm, by default (or at least this used to be the default; not sure if they fixed it) keeps indefinite scrollback history, in memory. It's perfectly possible for this to consume all your memory. It's worth checking memory usage in activity monitor, anyway.

That said, "terrible corporate spyware" would be my first guess here.