MTLCompilerService takes up to 2GB of memory in macOS Tahoe 26.0.1
It idles at half a gigabyte but sometimes jumps to 1.99GB, I have not observed a certain usage path that leads to this. To bring the memory usage down to 0.5 (which is still a lot):
kill -9 <main PID>
M4/24GB
Mac mini (M4)