CPU Usage High

frank_the_snake_master_01 wrote:

I am also cleaning all my bookmarks out that I saved to many now. I wish there was a way to clear all the ones I want to delete without doing these 1 at a time

You don't need to delete one at time, here's how:

Go to Safari menu > Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks. Choose a bookmark and hold the Shift key as you as you click on other consecutive books you want to delete. Then press Delete.

If the bookmarks aren't consecutive you can hold the Command key to skip over some in the list you do not want to delete as you choose others you do want to delete.

As I said I wouldn't worry about the report of CPU usage.

Nice weather you're having, same temperature here.

Here are my observations/suggestions based on the EtreCheck report:

1. Under the "Configuration Files" section - A sysctl.conf file was present that was not expected by macOS. This file may have been created by an app and is no longer used. I see that you are using Malwarebytes, so if this file was placed there by malware, that should have taken care of it.
2. Under the "Virtual Memory Information" section - Note that Swap Used value of 8 MB. This indicates that your iMac does not have enough RAM memory to handle multiple apps and requires that it swaps those apps to the HDD. This will significantly slow down their overall performance. The potential solution is to add more RAM.
3. Under the Diagnostics Information section - The warmd process crashed. This process is used by macOS to preload certain other processes & apps, typically at startup. One or more of those caused the warmd process to stop (crash).
4. "signpost_reporter" is a process that app developers use to "report back" primarily to Apple. At the time of the report, that process was very busy and was using significant CPU processing power.

2020-04-27 15:27:54 signpost_reporter High CPU Use

Executable: /usr/libexec/signpost_reporter

This process reports high network use activity, could be from running some network process like Speedtest. I wouldn't worry about it, unless you are having problems with your Mac.