macOS 27 Beta dasd eating 40+GB of RAM

• July 16, 2026 at 17:34 IST
• 1 min read
• macos

I installed the macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta from the very start, and now running into this dasd process consuming too much computer resources most of the time. I thought this will be solved eventually, but it hasn't been solved in the developer beta 3 or even in the first public beta.

Earlier, I wasn't having this issue (but most people are having this from the start) and started having this only after installing the latest update. My MacBook M2 Air 16 GB is now consuming 40+GB of RAM+Swap memory, and computer starts running very slow.

So... I researched and found this Reddit post where a person shares a solution that many people replied that it worked for them. I also tried the following command, and surprisingly I'm not running into the issue again.

sudo rm -rf /private/var/db/powerlog 
sudo reboot

You need your admin password to run this, and it didn't break anything else for me, so it's safe to run.

Honestly, I don't know what it does, but you can look it up.

Hope this helps.