reportcrash eating CPU

Thanks for getting back to us lumail,

To help narrow down where the issue may be, we suggest booting your Mac into safe mode, and testing to see whether the same behavior occurs there.

Safe mode will temporarily disable some times that load automatically with your Mac, specific to a few locations.

The following page explains more about safe mode, and how to access it: Start up your Mac in safe mode

We look forward to hearing your result!

I´ve been having a very similar issue for several weeks now. It does not seem to occur when in safe mode, but returns after some time (a day or two-ish) when returning to normal mode. I have completely removed Adobe acrobat reader (using App Cleaner to delete associated files). Have also manually deleted: com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.plist and com.adobe.reader.dc.plist. Simply re-booting the Mac seems to temporarily postpone the problem, but it keeps returning after a day or two (or less?) no matter what I do. I guess Adobe must have some hidden files that keeps "calling home" to resuscitate their own flawed/harmful software! See attached screen dump of console log. The two ARMDC processes keeps triggering ReportCrash every 10 seconds(-ish) in an endless loop... Which makes my fan run more or less continuously. Killing the processes in activity monitor doesn´t help; they keep restarting. It´s driving me crazy! Please advice!

Hi there lumail,

We understand you're looking to identify an issue on your Mac. If you haven't yet, try reviewing the Activity Monitor app. You may find additional information, or be able to identify a problematic process from there.

The following user guide offers information we think you'll find helpful: Activity Monitor User Guide

Take care!