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by sufehmi 102 days ago
After several days of usage, Activity Monitor will usually shows that "WindowServer" is using 6 GB of RAM.

Yeah, 8 GB RAM does not cut it anymore. At least until Apple start fixing the memory leaks in MacOS.

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Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If your machine isn't reporting memory pressure and/or the user isn't experiencing pageouts, then the machine is well-suited to the user's workload.
I'd rather my ram go to my page cache, not have bloated apps hoarding it.
But I thought Electron was the future?
Uptime of 13 days. My WindowServer is at 441Mb. ??? (32Gb RAM M2Max MBPro)
Probably a badly behaved app. Run `IOAccelMemory` to check.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?