reminiscence – WindowServer taking over a lot RAM; actually, an excessive amount of

For the previous few months—and the previous few months solely—my 2020 M1 MacBook Air has been behaving weirdly. The thread WindowServer retains taking over an appallingly great amount of my reminiscence; certainly, it exceeds my complete of 8GB and one way or the other takes ~50GB. This occurs each whereas after I reboot, and a reboot fixes the issue—or simply drive quitting WindowServer: that’s how I lived by way of the previous few months. I’ve lastly determined to combat this; not realizing how, I’m looking for assistance on this famend platform.