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User profile for user: Samaratin
Samaratin Author
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Sudden CPU High usage

Hi Community, I recently bought an Apple MacBook Air 13" 2019, everything was going awesome until I updated to Catalina, I encountered numerous issue but the one that really bugged me was the sudden high cpu usage issue. It's like I'm working on Firefox or Chrome ( only have like 10 tabs ) and suddenly sometimes the CPU usage sky rockets to 100% ( both cores ), When this happens I have to restart my mac but still it persists on the next startup only goes away after login.


This has happened to me twice now and I'm worried because my macbook becomes hot, Please advice.


Thanks

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 22, 2020 9:43 PM

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User profile for user: dominic23
dominic23
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Posted on Feb 23, 2020 2:41 AM

Use Activity Monitor to monitor CPU activity

https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/activihttps://etrecheck.com/


      Download EtreCheck: https://etrecheck.com/  and post the report here.

      Click, “Free Download” button and then  “Click to download” button,

      open Downloads folder, click on it to open, and then select ”Open”.

      “Choose a problem” from the popup menu box, and then “Start EtreCheck” in the dialog.

      Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar and select “Copy report”.

      Click the “Page” button in the toolbar at the bottom of this page and paste it when you reply.

      Note: This is a diagnostic test. 

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User profile for user: dominic23
dominic23
User level: Level 10
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Feb 23, 2020 2:41 AM in response to Samaratin

Use Activity Monitor to monitor CPU activity

https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/activihttps://etrecheck.com/


      Download EtreCheck: https://etrecheck.com/  and post the report here.

      Click, “Free Download” button and then  “Click to download” button,

      open Downloads folder, click on it to open, and then select ”Open”.

      “Choose a problem” from the popup menu box, and then “Start EtreCheck” in the dialog.

      Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar and select “Copy report”.

      Click the “Page” button in the toolbar at the bottom of this page and paste it when you reply.

      Note: This is a diagnostic test. 

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