"DELETED" PROCESS IN CATALINA

Hi guys I have the same issue. For my 12 y/o daughter I purchased a brand new MB Air 2020 w/ the i5 upgrade (50 bucks). Unboxed it yesterday:

• created admin account for myself
• updated from 10.15.3 to 10.15.4 (took 45 mins to download and then almost an hour just to deploy update)
• created standard user account for my kid
• configured her account preferences
• installed no extra software
• Did not logout from my admin account
• gave it to her this morning at 9 am to use for school work,
• battery at 70%
• she used safari (google classroom) and watched a 5 min video and played some music, all using native apps

• within a couple of minutes (so she told me 45 mins later) the fans started to blow.
• 10 am: battery at 10%
• When I arrived at the machine the fans were Blowing max speed and continued to blow despite almost idle usage
• AM showed a process called “deleted” consuming around 30-60% CPU
• All she had active was one Safari Tab and music.
• cores 1-3-5-7 (In AM) were showing high Continuous loads:
• core 1: 90%
• cores 3 and 5: 50-60%
• core 7: 30%
• After 15 mins suddenly the fans Slowly went down, after half a minute they were silent.

@ TheLittles: my admin account was still running so I could be experiencing your scenario. Strange though: this is a brand new machine without legacy account debris.

• called apple support. They advised me to shut down and reset SMC. So I did.
• logged back on to my kids account only.
• started activity monitor, Safari, photos. After 3 hours of use: still no issues.

Could this be because of the admin user issue you mentioned?

thanks!!!

What is this process about?

"deleted is a system daemon that keeps track of purgeable space via registered services. deleted listens for low-space events from the file system and attempts to avoid running out of disk space by requesting that clients purge space. ..."

Sources: macOS manpages

Hi John, thanks a bunch for your clarification. Can you think of any circumstance how our 3 hour old MacBook Air 2020 (see my issue description above) could have got stuck in this deleted loop, which caused the fans to blow at top speed continuously and drained the battery from 70% down to 10% in just 45 minutes?

Thanks!

mirogarcia Said:

"'DELETED' PROCESS IN CATALINA Hi, the activity monitor shows a process name 'deleted' that is always running and uses a lot of o CPU (between 30 to 50%!). After I force to stop, it run automatically again, and again. What is this process about?"

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Create a New Administrator User:

Its probably a stuck cache running in the current Administrator. So, create a New Administrator User, then delete this one from within it..

Are you logged in as an Administrator? Create a new Administrator user, and see if this still occurs while you are logged into a different Administrator user. If not, then it is something configured in your current user. So, from there move all of your files over to the new Administrator. Then, delete the current user you are having issue with. Just use this new Administrator account from here on out. You should be set from there.

To delete the current user:

1. Go To: System Preferences
2. Click: Users & Groups
3. Unlock: the lock
4. Click: "-"
5. Select: the this user
6. Delete: this user

See if that fixes it.