High CPU usage- LSOF

My mid-2010 MBP running High Sierra is showing high CPU usage for LSOF- close to 100%. All the time, and fan is constantly noisy.

Of course, there's no CPU for other tasks... computer is slow.

Why is it doing this?

I googled this, and some people said this could be related to Adobe Acrobat or recently installed software.

So, I got rid of all Adobe apps and also recently added softwares, but the issue remains basically the same.

Any other ideas of what else to check?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Aug 18, 2021 5:40 PM

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Posted on Aug 20, 2021 7:41 AM

After deleting those diebold files, I wrote the following command on terminal:

sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.diebold.warsaw.plist

See what happened right afterwards:

So I guess the diebold files were the problem.

I will just restart MBP to check if LSOF won't peak the CPU again.

Later, reinstall AVAST.

Should I reinstall Java as well?

Thanks for helping and for finding the solution.

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