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I just took a look at my activity monitor (to see if I could optimize my RAM), and saw at the bottom of the memory section a huge amount of root tasks simply titled 'cron' (screenshot below).

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They don't seem to use that much of memory, but I was wondering what they are used for, and why their are so many (around 60% of all my tasks in memory).

I run macOs Catalina 10.15.3 on a MacBook Pro 16 from 2019.

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  • You’ve got a nice loop. Have you disabled cron entirely and then worked through your entries one by one - watching how it spreads?
    – bmike ♦
    Commented Mar 7, 2020 at 17:11
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    Related question here: "cron" processes spawning and piling up, but no crontab
    – Nic
    Commented Mar 7, 2020 at 17:14
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    You (or a program you ran) created these. These are not part of the default system.
    – user150109
    Commented Mar 7, 2020 at 17:14

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