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2019 MacBook Pro Vega 20 Roasting all of a sudden

Automatic Graphics switching is [on]


For years I've had the same 2 external 1920x1200 displays hooked up to my macbook pro's (I get a fresh one every year)


This Mac is a couple weeks old now, normally the GPU activity graph is idle, with almost no activity while the machine is running no apps.


I've reset the SMC, reset NVRAM. Nothing in the software config has changed besides the recent safari update.


The area above the touchbar is now too hot to touch


check out this crazy graph while the mac is doing absolutely nothing


Posted on Sep 22, 2019 2:14 AM

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Posted on Sep 22, 2019 3:17 PM

Holycrap I found it


One of the Adobe Creative Cloud inits was going nuts everytime it launched at login - there was no indication at all in it's cpu activity.

Killing the Adobe inits one at a time eventually cured the problem, it's been 10 minutes with no runaway gpu, I've relaunched everything in the Adobe Suite to recreate the glitch, we'll see how things go after a few hrs.



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kallisti Author
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Sep 22, 2019 3:17 PM in response to kallisti

Holycrap I found it


One of the Adobe Creative Cloud inits was going nuts everytime it launched at login - there was no indication at all in it's cpu activity.

Killing the Adobe inits one at a time eventually cured the problem, it's been 10 minutes with no runaway gpu, I've relaunched everything in the Adobe Suite to recreate the glitch, we'll see how things go after a few hrs.



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Sep 22, 2019 2:21 PM in response to kallisti

update:


• apparently it has nothing whatsoever to do with what displays are connected. The Vega20 will go nuts if I just switch off "Automatic Graphics Switching"


• The other curiosity, is how this doesn't happen in the root account or any of the other user accounts


• I removed the "Launch Daemons" folder from my home library and rebooted to no avail


• This doesn't happen in SafeBoot


• I used Onyx to scrub all the temp/cache buildups


The next phase is to start killing processes until I see the graph hiccup


Really hoping I don't have a bitcoin miner in here. ClamXav found nothing and is always active, disconnecting the network didn't seem to affect anything.

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