zerosleeps

I was so confident I’d found a workaround and tamed macOS in my last post but I’m frustrated to say it is not so. Everything appeared fine for a day or two, but at the start of this week I woke my displays up and found mediaanalysisd chewing through my electricity and apparently generating nothing except huge amounts of errors in the system log. It’s been like that ever since.

I used my fs_usage trick to try and see what it’s problem is this time, and yep, it’s hitting the same few random image files hundreds of times a minute (but not files I added to Spotlight’s exclusion list last time).

I have no idea what value mediaanalysisd brings me when it is working, but disabling it requires jumping through some hoops that I’m not prepared to do on my production Mac.

I also started down the path of trying to see what all the “<private>” stuff in the macOS system log is hiding, but the steps required for that are just as awful.

I don’t feel like I own this computer anymore.