accountsd process is eating 500% cpu and making macbook pro 15,1 useless after Catalina 10.15.7 update.
Even if you force this process to quit it comes back at ~500% CPU and make lots os apps to hang.
I have tried to disable iCloud Mail integration and other suggestions related to "accountsd" that fixed this issue in previous Catalina versions but nothing worked.
Any suggestions?
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MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
I solved it installing this update:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL2052?viewlocale=en_US
It was impossible to use my MBP 16 ... difficult to download that using safari either (I had to use chrome)
Regards
Regarding the theories about gmail, exchange or whatsoever being the culprit, in my case that is not the issue.
This happens on my daughter's MacBook pro which only has AppleID (mail, calendar) installed. No third party services involved.
I agree. I tried most of the suggestions but all only temporarly fixed the issue. The next time I start my Mac Mini or even after some hours the problem occurs again. This is something that Apple has to fix. Unfortunately they are not very active. I'm really annoyed by this situation.
The only thing that stopped the issue on two of my macbook pros was logging out form the account in the "Music.app" (old Itunes App) (and killing "commerce" process in Activity Monitor). After logging out and closing the Music.app i waited for 10 minutes and re-logged in
Not this problem on my MBP 16" of 2019 10.15.7
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model ID: MacBookPro16.1
Processor name: 8-Core Intel Core i9
Processor speed: 2.3 GHz
Memory: 16 GB
the accountsd resource is 0%.
Hi, same here, bought a MacBook Pro 16" in December and never had so many problems with a Mac (or pc for that matter).
Instead of spending +3k€ on this loud brick I should have purchased the 900€ HP Pavillion my wife received at work, she never had an issue since.
After a couple of days with peaceful MacOS, today, out of nowhere, the accountsd process started the nightmare again.
I repeated the KeyChain on/off again, reboot, fine again.
I refuse to reinstall MacOS since this is such a radical and painful fix. A minor update shouldn't cause such damage to users and it seems, from the broad issue reported here, it could be something easy to detect if Apple really tested this update well.
Is Apple trying to turn MacOS into Windows with its crappy constant updates that brick systems and make users furious?
At least, windows machines are way cheaper than Apple.
This might also have something to do with iCloud being unresponsive during the local/remote data sync. Maybe accountsd is looping trying to sync forever and thus consuming this crazy amount of resources.
I don't know, they really need to take a look at this asap!
C'mon Apple!
the KeyChain removal did not work for my imac late 2012
Yesterday it thought i solved it by removing my icloud-account and adding it again. And it worked flawless afterwards.
But now it's back again :(( really annoying.
Hi
I had the same issue and it seems like commerce service is the trigger. The solution for me was to quitting “commerce” process from activity monitor .. right after doing it the cpu load of accountsd goes down and after some minutes stabilise. Restarting the system will relaunch the commerce process , but it won’t trigger the accountsd to go crazy anymore :) hope this helps ;)
best
rm
I have the same problem on my macbook pro and My mac pro 2019 both with 10.15.7 and also my battery is drained from then: accountsd process was using 500%CPU!
I fixed it with sudo killall -HUP accountsd
It seems to last but some other processes make a huge % of CPU.
Lastly I had to kill also pkd process which used 150% CPU.
Thanks to Phillip from support, I had finally solved this issue, cause' nothing else worked.
From the macOS Recovery mode (turn on laptop, then press and Cmd+R until you see startup screen) I went to Utility>Hard Disk>First Aid(Repair). Then reinstalled macOS.
It took some time for me, but so far - everything works properly, issue has gone.
Same issue here, mpro 13 2020, accountsd gets to 500%, I did not notice it and my batter went to 15% in 40 minutes :D
Spotlight was not working at all, when I killed accountds then secd and mds started to catch up and load CPU as well. Reboot did not help, in fact CPU hit maximum right on login screen. When I closed mail app, it did not help, but it did become better after I removed a local keychain
4995 cd ~/Library/Keychains
4996 ls
4997 rm -rf GUID
I've always trusted apple with latest updates, now my trust is gone. Give me one more ****** update and I quit your echosystem.
problem started when using 10.15.6. more or less out of the blue, the only thing that might be a cause is that my exchange pasword was changed.
A combo update did not solve the problem.
Deselect mail and keychain from iCloud and logout/login (so not restart) solves the problem temporary, after a shutdown/restart it is there again.
I was on Catalina 10.15.7 (19H), the "accountsd" process was consuming around 500 %, I shut down the computer, switched it on again and the problem was gone. As recommended here: https://mrmacintosh.com/catalina-10-15-7-update-accountsd-using-400-if-using-icloud-mail/
It's not a problem of the 10.5.7-Update. Same issue with 10.5.5 and 10.5.6.
Solution:
Hold down the alt key and select Library in the "Go to" menu. Then delete everything in the "Accounts" folder. That's all.
This worked well:
https://waal70blog.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/accountsd-and-secd-high-cpu-usage-on-catalina/
Go into ~/Library/Keychains and delete the folder that represents your local keychain (the folder will have a GUID-style name). Restart your Mac and all should be dandy. Please note, you MAY lose the convenience of having (some) saved passwords, requiring you to re-enter those.
Accountsd Mac cpu is high