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A built-in macOS process called searchpartyd sometimes goes off the rails and monopolizes CPU on a Mac. Here’s what it does, why it can spike resource usage, and how to bring it back to normal.

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Some Macs run into a glitch where a process called ApplicationsStorageExtension starts hogging CPU and RAM and making the system sluggish. Here’s what this process does and how to stop it from spinning out of control.

Is syslogd slowing down your Mac? Learn why this background process causes high CPU usage and how to fix it safely without losing critical system logs.

Mac users sometimes notice a process named mDNSResponder consuming a lot of bandwidth and congesting Wi-Fi. Here’s what this daemon does, why it can flood the network, and how to diagnose and fix mDNSResponder high data usage on macOS.

Macs running McAfee security tools sometimes suffer from VShieldScanner gobbling up RAM and CPU, slowing everything to a crawl. Here is what this process is, why it misbehaves, and how to tame it without sacrificing protection.