Memory Issue with Mavericks - installd process - RESOLVED

[James Steele]

I've seen a few reports of runaway processes in 10.9. I had one myself that appeared as launchd, although it was not running the process mentioned in your link. I was able to simply kill the process in Activity Monitor.

Yep. I was also able to Force Quit the process in Activity Monitor also. Afterwards things were fine. If I launched Software Update that process comes back, but then it stabilizes at a very small size after that. Problem is, I would have to remember to do that EVERY TIME I booted my Mac which was just way more hassle than I wanted to deal with. Not only, seems to indicate something is wrong *enough* that I can't just ignore it.

[bayswater]

It certainly is a hassle. There is more than one runaway process in 10.9, one that uses up all your CPU. They appear to be sporadic, so on my laptop, it's not much of a problem, but I'm staying with early OS X versions on my audio setup.

[James Steele]

Yep this was a RAM hog. I first noticed it because it had eaten up all of my physical RAM and had started in on virtual memory until I got "Disk Too Full" errors for my boot SSD. Mavericks does not feel nearly as solid as ML was.