This task has now been running for a month now, when will it stop.
Just upgraded to MacOS 10.15.2 in hope that it would stop running. 😕
It prevents my iMac to go to sleep automatic.
iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS 10.15
iMac (Retina 5K, 27 pouces, 2019) 10.15.4 - fusion drive (apple built-in)
I have reproduce it on a completely clean install. I added a volume and did install Catalina on it and boot from it.
I did not install anything, just created an account, and an issue is there.
So this is definitively a Catalina issue (I never see on Mojave).
It is related to fusion drive, this does not happen on my MBP that has a SSD, a task will appear after some time or after the 1st sleep/wake sequence.
This task is started by apfsd that starts a user agent that starts com.apple.apfsd/wbc_drain that will never stop and prevent the sleep.
I'm wondering if Apple take care of this as you can find many people having the issue.
I find a workaround, not very clean but this is the only way out, and it will not persist across boot.
The workaround consist in killing this background task by killing the UserEventAgent that supports it.
It turns that it need to be killed several times as it restart
in zsh you can copy past this. This will hide the issue until reboot or may be after sometimes the OS will restart this endless task.
until [ -z $(ps -ef | grep UserEventAgent | grep System | awk '{print $2}') ]
do
ps -ef | grep UserEventAgent | grep System | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9
done
I have a Fusion Drive. All that I know hav the same problem, neighbors and friends who have an iMac with fusion drive.
So it have to be a major issue, but as usually Apple don't care (hope not this is true). 😕
Sure, as stated in my previous post, with 10.15.4 supplemental update the issue did vanish.
So it would means it is back on 10.15.5 ?!
see my state below on 10.15.4
$ uptime
11:28 up 15 days, 13:07, 11 users, load averages: 0.87 0.99 1.11
$ pmset -g stats
Sleep Count:121
Dark Wake Count:104
User Wake Count:53
$
And regularly I can see that my iMac is slower to wake-up as it is in sleep.
In regards of statistic I'm more at 15% of sleep prevented by wbc_drain
$ pmset -g log | grep wbc_drain | wc -l
635
$ pmset -g log | grep wbc_drain | grep PrevIdle | wc -l
98
I hope the problem is not back on 10.15.5, I have not yet upgraded.
Still seeing this issue on iMac 5k 2017 10.15.5 2TB Fusion drive.
$ pmset -g log | grep PrevIdle | grep wbc_drain
2020-05-31 19:20:58 +0100 Assertions PID 95(UserEventAgent) Summary BackgroundTask "com.apple.apfsd.wbc_drain" 74:18:23 id:0x0xb0000821a [System: PrevIdle DeclUser BGTask kDisp]
"IODisplayWrangler which prevent my mac to sleep" => this one is your display which is on :). When your display will go off your Msc should suspend.
"Reboot does not get the ...drain process back." => be careful for me it takes several minutes to be rescheduled on reboot.
I have the exact same problem with a do it yourself fusion drive in my MacBook Pro. Everything was fine until I updated to Catalina :-( In some way I am glad to hear that it happens with the original Apple Fusion Drives in iMacs as well.
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I don't think that Apple will fix this, they are more focused on other things (or they don't know how to fix it).
The issue started in 10.15.2 and now we have 10.15.4 so it should have been fixed in 10.15.3, but no. 🙁
It can be true as people are chosing SSD.
however my iMac is recent and was sold with an Fusion drive.
I will contact Apple Care.
I know they won’t do anything but this a way to tell the problem exists.
may be a class action in US would help but I’m quite sure most owners simply don’t notice this issue.
This does not exist, the class action, in my country.
still happening on 10/15/4 supplemental update '10.15.4 (19E287)'
Also noticed that the UserEventAgent that runs the BackgroundTask come.apple.apfsd.wc_drain has its flag 'Preventing Sleep' set to 'No' while it prevent sleep
P.S. A report have been generated indeed using feedback assistant
I found in the system files, in the launch demons folder, this preference com.apple.apfsd.plist which in my opinion is the cause of the problem: I tried to delete the file but it is not possible, it is protected ... According to you it can be solved the bug if you delete this file?
This issue started when installing MacOS 10.15. Did hope that it was fixed in 10.15.2, but no. 😕
Well, it would be nice if Apple did fix it soon so my harddisk could relax.
At night I put it to sleep (cmc+option+eject)
What is ''com.Apple.apfsd.wbc_drain" actually doing, and why does it takes SO long time ?
Better: How to kill it for good ?
com.apple.apfsd.wbc_drain
