CAReportingservice

James, Thanks for the tip on etrecheck I will check it out as time permits. the only thing audio wise I can think of here my airpods getting tossed around between the 2 macs and my iphone that are all on my desk. This is something that they do on their own as they are all logged into the same icloud account.

Before I saw this I used a gentle but firm application of kill -9 ` ps aux | grep CARerporting | awk '{print $2}' ` last night and things seem to be ok. As of this morning the process has respawned on its own but is at a much more normal CPU consumption level. if it goes sideways again I will make it a priority to get etracheck figured out and see what can learn.

-ethan

No, I don't think it's deliberate - more the fact that apple have 10 not-amazing engineers doing what 1 insanely good engineer used to do, so they have more, but worse features and overall stability. MacOS has gradually become extremely bloated in the past 10 years, and with more bloat, comes more potential for poorly engineered code. I remember when they launched the stupid (sorry but it was) task bar and, when opening a quicktime movie (which by the way if you're a creative you're doing all the time), CPU would go to 100% for about the 1/2 duration of the movie clip to generate the stupid useless thumbnails that appeared in that task bar, because they'd use software decoding for that useless feature. This would tank my battery when trying to preview clips on the plane, for example. I tried to escalate through support but of course got nowhere. The bug remained for years. In the mean time I found a tool that forcibly turned off the task bar, which solved it.

Thanks for chipping in there and great work 👍

You beat me to it. I usually parse the questions with no replies looking for challenging ones.

High Five!

Hopefully the OP will check back and be more assured not Nefarious is happening on the machine

Batting at 51% + overall is wicked and impressive average 🇨🇦

Welcome form a " team effort " of more than one contributor.

Do come back to the Apple Support Communities ( ASC )  in the future, if / or when additional questions may arise

I am looking here as this process seems to keep spinning out of control and enabling jet engine mode on my CPU fan. any thoughts on what might cause this or a way to remediate?

here is the activity monitor SS as requested. also i have included the output from `top` below

Hi James, no audio stuff going on at all. machine is basically idle.

Thanks 👍 for jump back in on this one 😀

Perfectly normal for it to runaway with cpu usage and cripple my Macs performance, block my ability to key in Safari url, , etc.. Is this another utility to make older Macs obsolete?