Agent process going amok

Desktop App Bug Report
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Can y’all please rein in the rampant memory usage by Agent?

I took a screenshot, but I don’t see a way to embed it here in the forum… Activity monitor looks like this:

Agent.app|5.51 GB|30|180|2414|Intel|david|0.7|30:22.75|0|0.0|0.00|0 bytes|0 bytes|0 bytes|No|No|No|(null)|No|0 bytes|0|0 bytes|0|0 bytes|0 bytes|-|0 bytes|0 bytes|No|(null)||
| Agent.app|2.63 GB|30|158|733|Intel|david|0.6|25:55.82|0|0.0|0.00|0 bytes|0 bytes|0 bytes|No|No|No|(null)|No|0 bytes|0|0 bytes|0|0 bytes|0 bytes|-|0 bytes|0 bytes|No|(null)||
| Agent.app|2.35 GB|30|135|2382|Intel|david|0.8|22:53.20|0|0.0|0.00|0 bytes|0 bytes|0 bytes|No|No|No|(null)|No|0 bytes|0|0 bytes|0|0 bytes|0 bytes|-|0 bytes|0 bytes|No|(null)||

3 processes. Over 10Gb of ram used. I classify this as “excessive”. While you are at it, please explain why this hasn’t been re-compiled as a Universal Binary so it runs native on Mac Silicon? (WoW client works great with the ARM build, much better than Intel, but the Bnet app runs like garbage as Intel-only.)

I had to reboot the computer 3 days ago, so there is no reason for this to happen except as a memory leak.

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Screenshots

  1. Upload your screenshot to a free image hosting site, e.g. imgur
  2. Copy the URL of your screenshot to the clipboard
  3. Paste the URL of your screenshot into your post
  4. Highlight the URL in your post
  5. In the Edit window click the </> button to convert it to pre-formatted text
  6. The result will be similar to this…
    https://www.justanexample.com
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Thanks, Meteorblade,

Here it is, a screenshot fresh from this morning… 4 processes!

https://imgur.com/a/Ifk8NbU

I should probably list my specs here…

Mac mini 2023 M2 Pro 12-Core
32GB ram 1TB SSD
GPU 19-core Apple
macOS Ventura 13.4.1

Cheers!

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Embedding it for you…

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Thank you. When I tried to do it, it said it didn’t allow links. heh. Much appreciated!

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Blizzard’s forums are based on software called Discourse and posters have a Trust Level which determines what they can / cannot do. To see your Trust Level, click on the little blue person icon at the top-right of the forum, then the right-most of the three tabs (that also looks like a little person icon), and choose Summary. In order to be able to directly embed images, or post clickable hyperlinks (to domains not on the whitelist) posters need the third tier of Trust Level, which is Regular. Your Trust Level increases the more posts you read / make, likes given / received, days you’ve viewed the forums and so on.

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