What is knowledgeconstructiond?

[Tomb01]

I think this Mac OS Ventura process is related to Siri, but I have Siri disabled and this process still runs, sometimes consuming 100% of two processors. Not all the time, but often enough that it can be annoying. Do I really need it, and if not how can I turn it off? Thanks in advance....

 

[mac-city]

I have this question too. what is this. sounds somewhat nefarious to me.

 

[gilby101]

It is not nefarious. The terminal commands man knowledgeconstructiond and man intelligenceplatformd briefly describe its function. You then need to find out what a knowledge graph is.

I would assume that Siri is a consumer of the data in the knowledge graph. But is probably not the only one.

 

[steve123]

Did you ever figure out how to get rid of this process? It consumes 100% cpu and I would really like to stop whatever it is doing. I have disabled Siri.

 

[bogdanw]

With SIP disabled, the processes can be stopped and disabled.

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.knowledgeconstructiond
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.knowledgeconstructiond

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.siriknowledged
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.siriknowledged

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.knowledge-agent
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.knowledge-agent

Apple - Disabling and Enabling System Integrity Protection (SIP)
https://developer.apple.com/documen...ling_and_enabling_system_integrity_protection

Similar thread "Process name "knowledgeconstructd" is taking too much memory" https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...constructd-is-taking-too-much-memory.2383770/

Disable-Ventura-Bloatware.sh https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/c99e5b2eefad19932554a713384dcc70

 

[steve123]

With SIP disabled, the processes can be stopped and disabled.

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.knowledgeconstructiond
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.knowledgeconstructiond

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.siriknowledged
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.siriknowledged

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.knowledge-agent
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.knowledge-agent

Apple - Disabling and Enabling System Integrity Protection (SIP)
https://developer.apple.com/documen...ling_and_enabling_system_integrity_protection

Similar thread "Process name "knowledgeconstructd" is taking too much memory" https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...constructd-is-taking-too-much-memory.2383770/

Disable-Ventura-Bloatware.sh https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/c99e5b2eefad19932554a713384dcc70

Thanks for the info ... this is very helpful.

 

[steve123]

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.knowledgeconstructiond
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.knowledgeconstructiond

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.siriknowledged
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.siriknowledged

launchctl bootout gui/501/com.apple.knowledge-agent
launchctl disable gui/501/com.apple.knowledge-agent

Quick question, is the "501" in the service path a User ID? Do I need to substitute my User ID?

 

[gilby101]

Quick question, is the "501" in the service path a User ID? Do I need to substitute my User ID?

Yes, and yes.

 

[bogdanw]

Quick question, is the "501" in the service path a User ID? Do I need to substitute my User ID?

501 is the User ID for the first admin account created. If you are not using that account, you can check your User ID in System Settings - Users & Groups - Advanced Options https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201548