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syspolicyd

  1. Nygaard

    macOS PSA: Bypass Gatekeeper for faster builds/development cycles

    A few years late on this, but apparently when Gatekeeper was added in Catalina, it caused quite the splash (see Allan Odgaard's post, MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design). One of the big issues is that syspolicyd (aka Gatekeeper) phones home to Apple before the first launch of any new executable: not...
  2. H

    M1 MBA huge disk usage

    Hello, I own a 2020 MBA with M1 processor, running macOS 11.6.7 at the moment. I have noticed that a process called "syspolicyd" is reading an extremely huge amount of data (circa 1TB per week or even more). Then I decided to update to 11.6.7 but the behavior remained the same. I still haven't...
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