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CPU Usage High

I ran the EtreCheck Apr. 30, 2020 report how do I cleanup the CPU High Usage and bring it down? My iMac is on for at least 12 hours a day then goes into shut down at night.

EtreCheck version: 5.5.4 (5106) Report generated: 2020-04-30 13:11:25 Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com Runtime: 5:10 Performance: Good Sandbox: Enabled Full drive access: Enabled Problem: No problem - just checking Major Issues: Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention. Time Machine backup out-of-date - The last Time Machine backup is over 10 days old. Runaway process - A process is using a large percentage of your CPU. Minor Issues: These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems or opportunities for improvement. Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed. Apple has said that unsigned software will not run by default in a future version of the operating system. 32-bit Apps - This machine has 32-bits apps will not work on macOS 10.15 "Catalina". Kernel extensions present - This machine has kernel extensions that may not work in the future. Hardware Information: iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012) iMac Model: iMac13,1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-3330S) CPU: 4-core 8 RAM - Upgradeable by an Apple Authorized Service Provider BANK 0/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 BANK 1/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 Video Information: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M - VRAM: 512 MB iMac 1920 x 1080 Drives: disk0 - APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 1.00 TB (Mechanical - 5400 RPM) Internal SATA 3 Gigabit Serial ATA disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk0s2 [APFS Container] 1000.00 GB disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 1000.00 GB (Shared by 4 volumes) disk1s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 203.25 GB used) disk1s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared) disk1s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared) disk1s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 5.37 GB used) disk3 - WD My Passport 07A8 1.00 TB External USB 5 Gbit/s USB disk3s1 [Partition Map] 32 KB disk3s2 29 KB disk3s3 29 KB disk3s4 29 KB disk3s5 29 KB disk3s6 262 KB disk3s7 262 KB disk3s8 262 KB disk3s10 - M*****************c (Journaled HFS+) 1.00 TB (353.38 GB used) Mounted Volumes: disk1s1 - Macintosh HD 1000.00 GB (Shared - 203.25 GB used, 824.35 GB available, 790.64 GB free) APFS Mount point: / disk1s4 - VM [APFS VM] 1000.00 GB (Shared - 5.37 GB used, 790.64 GB free) APFS Mount point: /private/var/vm disk3s10 - M*****************c 1.00 TB (353.38 GB used, 646.66 GB free) Journaled HFS+ Mount point: /Volumes/M*****************c Network: Interface usbmodem1411: Motorola Phone (W490) Interface usbserial-20_107: USB <-> 20-107 Interface en0: Ethernet Interface en1: Wi-Fi Interface en5: iPhone Interface en4: Bluetooth PAN Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge System Software: macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G4032) Time since boot: About an hour Configuration Files: File /etc/sysctl.conf exists but not expected Security: System Status Gatekeeper: Enabled System Integrity Protection: Enabled Antivirus software: Apple and Malwarebytes Unsigned Files: Launchd: /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.wdc.WDPrivilegedHelper.plist Executable: /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.wdc.WDPrivilegedHelper Details: Exact match found in the whitelist - probably OK Plugin: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin Apps: 5 32-bit Applications: 10 32-bit apps Kernel Extensions: /Library/Application Support/Malwarebytes/MBAM/Kext MB_MBAM_Protection.kext (4.4 - SDK 10.11) System Launch Agents: [Not Loaded] 16 Apple tasks [Loaded] 172 Apple tasks [Running] 112 Apple tasks System Launch Daemons: [Not Loaded] 38 Apple tasks [Loaded] 184 Apple tasks [Running] 112 Apple tasks [Other] 2 Apple tasks Launch Agents: [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.frontend.agent.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2020-04-21) Launch Daemons: [Loaded] com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-12-12) [Loaded] com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-12-12) [Loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-03-27) [Not Loaded] com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist (Apple - installed 2020-03-18) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.rtprotection.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2020-04-29) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.settings.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2020-04-21) [Loaded] com.wdc.WDPrivilegedHelper.plist (? 9f7f4405 - installed 2020-04-29) User Login Items: [Not Loaded] CaffeinatedHelper (App Store - installed 2020-02-20) Modern Login Item /Applications/Caffeinated.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CaffeinatedHelper.app [Not Loaded] CIJSUAgent (Canon Inc. - installed 2020-02-09) Modern Login Item /Applications/Canon Utilities/IJ Scan Utility/Canon IJ Scan Utility2.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CIJSUAgent.app [Not Loaded] ClassicWeather HD (App Store - installed 2020-02-26) Modern Login Item /Applications/ClassicWeather HD.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/CW HD LaunchHelperApp.app [Not Loaded] Find Any File Hotkey (Thomas Tempelmann - installed 2019-12-14) Modern Login Item /Applications/Find Any File.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Find Any File Hotkey.app [Not Loaded] Garmin Express Service (Garmin International - installed 2020-03-05) Modern Login Item /Applications/Garmin Express.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Garmin Express Service.app [Not Loaded] crashreporter (Garmin International - installed 2020-03-05) Modern Login Item /Applications/Garmin Express.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Garmin Express Service.app/Contents/MacOS/crashreporter.app [Not Loaded] ApplicationUpdater (Garmin International - installed 2020-03-05) Modern Login Item /Applications/Garmin Express.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Garmin Express Service.app/Contents/Resources/ApplicationUpdater.app [Not Loaded] SpeedTestHelper (App Store - installed 2020-01-24) Modern Login Item /Applications/Speedtest.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/SpeedTestHelper.app [Loaded] WDDriveUtilityHelper (Western Digital Corporation Branded Products Group - installed 2020-04-29) Application /Applications/WD Drive Utilities.app/Contents/WDDriveUtilityHelper.app [Not Loaded] iHeartRadioHelper (App Store - installed 2017-10-20) Modern Login Item /Applications/iHeartRadio.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/iHeartRadioHelper.app Internet Plug-ins: AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 17.012.20098 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-03-17) FlashPlayer-10.6: 32.0.0.363 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-04-30) Flash Player: 32.0.0.363 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-04-30) AdobePDFViewer: 20.006.20042 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-03-17) Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: 3.3.0.9 (? - installed 2014-07-24) Audio Plug-ins: AppleTimeSyncAudioClock: 1.0 (Apple - installed 2019-05-14) BluetoothAudioPlugIn: 6.0.14 (Apple - installed 2020-03-25) AirPlay: 2.0 (Apple - installed 2020-03-25) AppleAVBAudio: 760.6 (Apple - installed 2019-07-22) BridgeAudioSP: 5.52 (Apple - installed 2020-03-25) iSightAudio: 7.7.3 (Apple - installed 2019-07-22) Safari Extensions: Ghostery Lite Content Blocker - Cosmetic Filters (App Store - installed 2020-01-15) Ghostery Lite Content Blocker - Network Filters (App Store - installed 2020-01-15) Ghostery Lite Content Blocker - Privacy Filters (App Store - installed 2020-01-15) Ghostery Lite Safari Extension (App Store - installed 2020-01-15) 3rd Party Preference Panes: Flash Player (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-03-27) FUSE (Benjamin Fleischer - installed 2019-12-05) Time Machine: Skip System Files: No Mobile backups: No Auto backup: Yes Volumes being backed up: Macintosh HD: Disk size: 1000.00 GB - Disk used: 209.36 GB Destinations: M*****************c [Local] (Last used) Total size: 1.00 TB Total number of backups: 75 Oldest backup: 2018-12-25 12:18:49 Last backup: 2020-04-19 11:46:12 13 local snapshots Oldest local snapshot: 2020-04-19 11:24:55 Last local snapshot: 2020-04-30 12:58:36 Performance: System Load: 2.17 (1 min ago) 1.84 (5 min ago) 1.72 (15 min ago) Nominal I/O speed: 1.97 MB/s File system: 73.45 seconds Write speed: 59 MB/s Read speed: 43 MB/s CPU Usage Snapshot: Type Overall System: 6 % User: 21 % Idle: 73 % Top Processes Snapshot by CPU: Process (count) CPU (Source - Location) Other processes 95.41 % (?) trustd 6.59 % (Apple) EtreCheck 4.26 % (App Store) CoreServicesUIAgent 0.35 % (Apple) Caffeinated 0.02 % (App Store) Top Processes Snapshot by Memory: Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location) EtreCheck 484 MB (App Store) Pages 220 MB (App Store) Finder 99 MB (Apple) AppleSpell 95 MB (Apple) System Preferences 58 MB (Apple) Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use: Process (count) Input / Output (Source - Location) Other processes 36 KB / 32 KB (?) mdworker_shared 0 B / 0 B (Apple) spindump_agent 0 B / 0 B (Apple) backgroundtaskmanagementagent 0 B / 0 B (Apple) SafariPlugInUpdateNotifier 0 B / 0 B (Apple) Virtual Memory Information: Physical RAM: 8 GB Free RAM: 2.38 GB Used RAM: 3.44 GB Cached files: 2.18 GB Available RAM: 4.56 GB Swap Used: 8 MB Software Installs (past 30 days): Install Date Name (Version) 2020-04-01 Pages (10.0) 2020-04-02 MRTConfigData (1.58) 2020-04-13 EtreCheck (5.5.4) 2020-04-16 XProtectPlistConfigData (2119) 2020-04-29 Malwarebytes for Mac (1.0) 2020-04-30 Kamino (2.1.0(372)) 2020-04-30 Adobe Flash Player (32.0.0.363) Diagnostics Information (past 7-30 days): 2020-04-29 09:05:08 warmd Crash Executable: /usr/libexec/warmd Details: dyld3 mode 3076.071880 [get_process_index:2748] Assertion failed: pid >= 0 2020-04-27 15:27:54 signpost_reporter High CPU Use Executable: /usr/libexec/signpost_reporter End of report


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Posted on May 3, 2020 11:36 AM

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.

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May 3, 2020 11:36 AM in response to DODGE01CHALLENGERSRT01_01

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.

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May 3, 2020 8:35 AM in response to DODGE01CHALLENGERSRT01_01

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.
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May 3, 2020 9:10 AM in response to DODGE01CHALLENGERSRT01_01

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.

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May 3, 2020 11:16 AM in response to macjack

macjack,


My friend how is it going 73 in northeast here and thanks for the info appreciate it. 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/ This is a pain to do been on it for a while now. You have to right click on the one but if you try to do more it does not work do you know of a way maybe this will help my CPU? wHAT DO YOU THINK.


Frank



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