Accountsd process using huge amounts of CPU and memory

The Accountsd process uses huge amounts of CPU and memory that makes my laptop almost unworkable. This happens when I'm not connected to the internet and the Mail app is open. This is a big problem as I need to access emails when on the move and often I won't have internet (e.g. on a train or plane or a place without wifi)

This became a problem after installing Catalina and it took me a while to figure out the issue. When connected to the internet, there is no problem at all.

I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) with 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 and 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3.

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 13”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 23, 2019 3:50 AM

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lpuerto

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Posted on Dec 12, 2019 4:45 AM

Hey!

I really would like to know if you really have the same problem or just a similar one related to accountsd. I mean… I was reading the post on the site you shared and I don't have any of those things. I don't have a gosht keychain and the computer work well and the accountsd has a normal behavior if you don't have exchange mail account enabled in mail and no connection.

I just disabled my exchange mail —just the mail— and everything work well even with mail open and no connection. At least in my case the problem is pretty specific to Exchange mail accounts on Mail app on Catalina.

What is going on, at least in my opinion is, mail just enters in a loop when you have a exchange account and no connection and try to connect to the server all the time.

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