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  1. W

    MBP M1 - unresponsive, Spotlight issues, strange CPU spikes

    Hi, since a few days my M1 MBP shows several symptoms of performance reduction. In general the UI is laggy, the mouse cursor shows intermittent stops, scrolling in Safari stops for about half a second and continues afterwards. Furthermore the Spotlight search prompt disappears after 1-2...
  2. Romahaaa

    MacbookPro mid 2015 mds_stores or configd CPU high load

    Hi, Here is the case: recently I serviced my MBP (mid 2015 15" Retina) for battery replacement & general cleanup. After that I the problem appeared - each time when I turn on/wake up MBP on batter (power cabble detached) mds_stores process takes 200-350% of CPU according to Activity Monitor...
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    CPU Overload,Macbook pro late 2011

    Hi everyone , I'm having a MacBook pro late 2011 updated to 10.13.6 (high Sierra ).While using some applications such as google chrome or Logic pro x or even vlc player ,it becomes so much laggy and unworkable ,and when I opened activity monitor to see what is going on I noticed cpu Overload...
  4. Ylan

    CPU usage, USB vs. Thunderbolt

    Comrades, I have a Focusrite Scarlett 1st generation, and am bugged by the latency while tracking, so I am thinking of upgrading. I know that the 2nd generation Scarlett has considerably less latency, but am pondering digging deep in my pockets and go Clarett (Thunderbolt). Not just for the...
  5. MrAverigeUser

    MacFanControl might Consume up to 10% CPU....

    having look at activity monitor, I realized today that MacFanControl (last version) consumed between 4 and nearly 10% of CPU ! First, I was paranoid and thought they would create bitcoins or something like that on their customers machines... but after stopping the process in activity monitor...
  6. R

    Process "core" eating up my CPU - MacOS 10.13.3

    In my MBP Retina 13 Late 2012 a process named "core" pops up and consumes a lot of CPU, with the Energy score around 100. It heats the CPU to the point the fan is set to the highest. I do a force quit on it and it comes back to life sort of randomly. It may take 2 minutes to half an hour. It...