"TeamsUpdater" Process from Microsoft Teams

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∟"TeamsUpdater" Process from Microsoft Teams

This section describes 'TeamsUpdater' background process left by the Microsoft Teams to keep Teams up to date.

What Is the "TeamsUpdater" Process? - "TeamsUpdater" is a process that keeps the Microsoft Teams app updated. It is running in the background even after you have closed the Teams app.

Here is what I did about the "TeamsUpdater" process.

1. Get resource usage info of "TeamsUpdater" process. It's not taking too much CPU time.

herong$ ps -A | grep TeamsUpdater
99739 ??         0:00.80 /Applications/Microsoft Teams.app/Contents
  /TeamsUpdaterDaemon.xpc/Contents/MacOS/TeamsUpdaterDaemon

herong$ ps -o pid,user,%cpu,%mem,time -p 99739
  PID USER  %CPU %MEM      TIME
99739 root   0.0  0.0   0:00.80

2. Get memory usage info of "TeamsUpdater" process with "top" command. It's taking 1.6 MB of RAM! I need to remove it to reduce memory usage.

herong$ top -pid 99739

PID    COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH  #WQ  #POR MEM    PURG CMPRS  PGRP  PPID STATE
99739  TeamsUpdater 0.0  00:00.81 3    1    53   1676K  64K  2428K  99739 1    sleeping