mediaanalysisd, photoanalysisd and photolibraryd

[bogdanw]

SIP madness.

SIP madness? Please elaborate.
I consider madness to have processes like the ones discussed in the thread, routined & navd running without user knowledge and consent.

"routined is a per-user daemon that learns historical location patterns of a user and predicts future visits to locations."
"navd uses your location, calendar event's location and traffic conditions to generate hypotheses about when you need to leave"

 

[N0ne1eft]

SIP madness? Please elaborate.

I meant other solutions online suggested disabling SIP in an attempt to permanently disable mediaanalysisd from launchd (with mixed results), it needs SIP disabled because mediaanlaysisd is a system service. I don't really want to mess with SIP for stability reasons, so suppressing it by excluding drive in spotlight indexing is better than disabling a system service. I am happy knowing it is no longer scanning my photos for the OCR and face detection features I don't need on my external backup HDD 24/7.

 

[TenthAlmond]

Today, mediaanalysisd decided to run while my laptop wasn't plugged in, and ate 20% of my laptop's battery in a few minutes.

I found that it's configured to run via the file /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.mediaanalysisd.plist, where it's configured as follows:

<key>RequiresExternalPower</key>
<false/>
<key>Priority</key>
<string>Maintenance</string>
<key>ResourceIntensive</key>
<false/>

The ResourceIntensive=false tag...