Why is Searchpartyd taking up so much cpu?

Irish Dance Mom wrote:

Searchpartyd is always sucking up cpu on my Mac.

If you had no issues before you upgraded to macOS Sonoma,

I would not suspect now you all of a sudden have a browser hijacker from 2021.

i can add searchpartyd is built into the macOS —

you can see it in the list from Terminal.app

ls -a /usr/libexec/

From the manual—

MacBook-Pro ~ %

 man searchpartyd | more

searchpartyd(8) System Manager's Manual searchpartyd(8)

NAME

searchpartyd – searchparty daemon

SYNOPSIS

searchpartyd

DESCRIPTION

searchpartyd is a daemon.

There are no configuration options to searchpartyd. Users should not run

it manually.

Mac OS X 1/11/14 Mac OS X

You can however kill the process in your Activity Monitor.app —do a search in A.M. for <searchpartyd> and test.

ref: Activity Monitor User Guide for Mac

reboot as normal andd compare your results.

Irish Dance Mom wrote:

Searchpartyd is always sucking up cpu on my Mac. My computer is so slow to react and I have a hard time getting work done. Can anyone give me a definitive answer as to what this actually is associated with and what the purpose is? I particularly love it when it is running 101.0 % of cpu.

and

Can I kill it?

I am Running Sonoma 14.0

3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5

Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB

8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

If you have shutdown and restarted more than once since the upgrade...

you can try SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support to sort anomalies. Login and test, reboot as normal and compare your results.

To trouble shoot further you can:

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

If you do search on search engine choice you see this Mac trojan! So kill the thing from running and try to remove it! I found an article named https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-searchpartyd/#uninstall so you manually remove all its parts!