homed service using 50% of CPU

Ward_Pof wrote:

Hi dougles, yes, Ive tried a variety of options,

Restarted in Safe mode and checked CPU use with the same result

I've been able to narrow it down to 2 files that are constantly changing size:

Both in User/username/Library/Homekit/BLECache

core-cloudkit-shared.sqlite-wal

core-cloudkit.sqlite-wal

Jump from a few kb to like 8MB and down again.

As soon as i delete them both, the CPU usage of "homed" drops to 0%

But as soon as i restart, the files pop up again and start doing the same.

Thanks for looking into it!

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Ward_Pof wrote:

Hi all,

Since the last update on my macbook air M1 2020, to Ventura 13.4 my mac has gotten considerably more warm.

So i went to check CPU usage to see if anything abnormal was happening.

And on top of the list with 50% of CPU usage is a service called "homed".

As far as i can tell it is related to the HomeKit app,

but I dont use anything that, as far as i know has to do with Homekit, no smart devices connected, nothing...

So why is this service constantly around 50%

On my partners macbook air this service is on 0% as it should be, so what am I missing?

Thanks in Advance!

Ward

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Open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Viewer.app and see what is running so hard!