"WindowServer" Process - Drawing Graphics on Screen

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∟"WindowServer" Process - Drawing Graphics on Screen

This section describes 'WindowServer' process, which serves all apps to draw their graphical elements on the desktop.

What Is "WindowServer" Process? - "WindowServer" is a system process that serves all apps to draw their graphical elements on the desktop. The more apps you are running on the desktop, the more resources will be consumed by the "WindowServer" process.

Here is what I did about "WindowServer" process.

1. View "WindowServer" process with "ps" command.

herong$ ps -A | grep WindowServer
  138 ?? 221:28.59 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SkyLight.framework
    /Resources/WindowServer -daemon

2. Get resource usage info of "WindowServer" process. It's taking 192 MB of RAM, not too bad.

herong$ top -pid 138
...

PID  COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH  #WQ  #PORT MEM   PURG  CMPRS PGRP PPID
138  WindowServer 5.6  03:43:49 6    2    1497  192M- 106M  416M  138  1