Comment by DetectDefect
1 month ago
I just opened Activity Monitor - a process called "dasd" is the 5th largest consumer of CPU time. What does it do? Apple does not want you to know. Apple also will not let you disable it. Apple will not even tell you if this process is legitimate (it is signed by "Software Signing" lmao).
$ man dasd
No manual entry for dasd
There are like two dozen processes like this, half of which open network connections despite me never invoking any Apple services or even built-in apps. macOS has basically become malware.
It schedules low-priority background processes.
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-s...
Until we see the source code (or at least a man page) that is an unverified claim and the process should be treated like malware:
The tasks it "schedules" must be very low-priority, because nothing breaks when dasd doesn't run.
That's...what background processes do? They're supposed to run occasionally and be resilient to disruption.
But if you wanna be afraid of boring ordinary things, you go right ahead.
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The scheduling shouldn't be the 5th largest consumer of CPU. The question is what is it scheduling. Collecting data about user behavior would be a background task, you know..