"Siri" Processes - Voice Command Interpreter

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∟"Siri" Processes - Voice Command Interpreter

This section describes 'Siri' process, which allows you to operates your Mac computer with voice commands interactively.

What Are "Siri" Processes? - "Siri" processes are created by the system app "Siri", which allows you to operates your Mac computer with voice commands interactively.

Here is what I did about "Siri" processes.

1. View "Siri" processes with "ps" command.

herong$ ps -A | grep Siri
  629 ?? 0:35.07 /System/Library/CoreServices/Siri.app/Contents
    /MacOS/Siri launchd
38729 ?? 1:37.37 /System/Library/CoreServices/Siri.app/Contents
    /XPCServices/SiriNCService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/SiriNCService
38728 ?? 0:00.28 /System/Library/CoreServices/ControlStrip.app/Contents
    /XPCServices/com.apple.DFRSystemExtra.Siri.xpc/Contents
    /MacOS/com.apple.DFRSystemExtra.Siri

2. Check CPU and memory usages of "Siri" processes using "top" command. Total memory usage is about 36 MB.

herong$ top -pid 629

PID    COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH  #WQ  #POR MEM   PURG CMPRS  PGRP  PPID
629    Siri         0.0  00:35.76 4    2    163  3532K 0B   2300K   629  1

herong$ top -pid 38728
38728  com.apple.DF 0.0  00:00.28 2    1    64   760K  0B   960K  38728  1

herong$ top -pid 38729
38729  SiriNCServic 0.0  01:40.93 3    1    309  32M   0B   94M   38729  1