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saulinpa

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Ever since around 26.5 I seem to have a mystery memory hog. Less than five minutes after rebooting the swap seems to max out and then maybe 10 minutes later the swap goes down to less than a gig. Then at random times it peaks again. Sometimes Activity Monitor seems to get overloaded and blanks out with only Swap Used showing and not updating. I quit Activity Monitor and restart and then it reports with lower numbers.

Is there a way to find what process is using memory other than Activity Monitor as it is not showing anything?
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