Hi John and thank you for your reply.
I am referring to the answer that was marked here:
Accountsd process using huge amounts of C… - Apple Community
The idea of the user was to switch off the Wifi connection, which is not a permanent solution, wouldn't you agree? Even the person posting the litte workaround diden't agree with the "Solved" mark his answer was given, because the accountsd CPU overload seems to be something a lot of users are having problems with.
Did you contact Apple Support?
Yes I did and they were (as always) very friendly and tried their best, but no luck so far.
The steps included:
- Removing all GMail accounts and Keychain (solved it for something around 8 hours. thaen it was back)
- Removing the iCould Keychain (also no luck).
- Resetting SMC
- Resetting NVRAM
But even after 2 sessions no luck so far. This workarounds only helped for 4-5 hours, then the problem returned. But they did actually tell me that they are getting a lot of these right now. Adn a quick google search shows that a lot of external sites are pick up on it as well.
So my question to ask for a general fix instead of single-user workarounds is in my eyes not misplaced. Specially if we take into consideration that the problem startet for most users one day after Apple released the Catalina 10.17.5 Update, BUT has been around much longer then that.
