Bird Process Consumes Vast Amount of CPU

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Bird Process Consumes Vast Amount of CPU

After I disabled "Symc My Photos" from "yes" to "no", something started to consume a lot of CPU. In the activity monitor, I see a process called bird (which is iCloud's background process as far as I googled). Furthermore, there is a never ending upload process in finder. It tries to upload 5 GB of foles, and it never reaches to that poiint. At the same time, bird consumes almost 80% of the CPU and the macbook gets extremely hot. Furthermore, there is an "other" section on the storage and it gets bigger and bigger.

It is a fact that, there is a bug related to iCloud on Mac. Please fix it for the long run. And please tell me a working solution, don't recommend me "enabling/disabling icloud" or " removing the user and creating a new user" since they dont work. Furthermore this is not happening for the first time, it has happened almost 8 months ago. I disabled and enabled but it didn't wok out. I came up with deleting the local user and creating a new one because the "other" section on the disk reached almost 150 GB.

Specs:

Macbook Pro 15, 2018, Big Sur 11.01

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Dec 10, 2020 1:32 PM

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Answer 1

scabir Author

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Dec 11, 2020 3:08 AM in response to tygb

As I understand, you simply suggest me to stop bird on Activity Monitor. I think you shouldn't have suggested at the first place.

First of all, the root cause is not clear. I restart my mac and a process called bird starts and you want me to stop it from the activity monitor.

If bird is doing something right, closing the app will definitely cause issues about iCloud. And, still the reason why it does this is not clear.

If bird is doing something wrong, why does it start on start up? Just do not start such a process on start up. Just remove it.

Furthermore, because of manual intervention of bird, who will be responsible from a possible data loss? So, I won't do that. It must act in a correct way at the first place. Neither iCloud nor Mac OS are freeware softwares.

As a result, thank you very much for your reply but please suggest me a proper solution not useless workarounds like deleting and recreating the user, disconenction icloud or killing the process, simply things to delay the real issue for some more months.

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tygb

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Dec 11, 2020 2:19 AM in response to scabir

See the article https://support.apple.com/en-hk/guide/activity-monitor/actmntr1002/mac

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Answer 3

tygb

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Dec 11, 2020 5:14 AM in response to scabir

If mac is getting hot see the basic step https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201295

I will suggest to contact apple support directly https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201232

You won't agree to reinstall Mac OS , sometimes if activity monitor is not working , the applications were not closed in the background and they were still running .

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Bird Process Consumes Vast Amount of CPU

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