I don't see an answer on what to do about the bird process running my CPU at 90% plus almost constantly. There was one response that talked about how to use activity monitor - not so useful. Why is this thing running my CPU so hard all of the time. I am not constantly loading everything up to the cloud. My battery life is only 2-3 hours with this thing running and my MBP is just a couple of weeks old.
Thanks for the response. I had read about what it is and that script to look for errors previously. In fact, this problem seems to go back at least five years, so it's not really a Mojave problem. Anyway, I couldn't find any posts indicating that anyone had ever run that script, found the problem, and then fixed it.
What I ended up doing was logging out of iCloud and ignoring the offers to save (whatever). I then went to the activity monitor and killed the bird and cloudd(?) processes. I then restarted and logged back into iCloud. I had to restart the photo synch and I unchecked a few processes that I don't use (Home, News). (I had unchecked those previously to no avail.) At first I had the bird process running full bore for maybe an hour, but just as I pulled up your response, my fan slowed and then stopped. I checked and bird was no longer showing amongst he top CPU users. I am holding my breath and hoping that it continues to behave itself.
I've seen a couple of other things posted on the web that worked for some people but not for others. The bottom line is that Apple has a long-standing problem for which they have not yet provided a fix. I just wish they would post some sort of "we are aware of the problem and will advise when a solution has been found" message.
"bird" is a daemon process that is associated with syncing/backing up files to iCloud. If there are a significant amount of files that are being synced or any of those files are corrupt, they may cause this process to run at a high % CPU.
If you want to see if there are any errors occurring when this process is running, enter the following command in Terminal:
Thanks for posting back your "solution." I'm sure it will help others with this same issue ... and sorry that I couldn't provide you with an "exact fix."
Bird Process Hogging Resources
