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macbook air monterey 12.7.3 is taking high percentage of CPU

Dear Support,

I updated my mac OS on 23-01-2024, after that i found that some process are taking high percentage of CPU, there are few process like, md_stores, windowServer. After updation Boot time increase and i am unable to access youtube on browser. so i thought to reset all data and setting, may be performance will improve. but unable to find option to erase data reset my laptop.


kindly help me to fix it.



Thanks & Regards

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Jan 26, 2024 9:47 AM

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Jan 26, 2024 4:09 PM in response to pushpendra35

Hello,


We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...

Using EtreCheck - Apple Community


EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.

https://www.etrecheck.com/


Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255121100?answerId=259529290022#259529290022


Use the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...

Jan 28, 2024 9:51 PM in response to BDAqua

Thank you so much for helping me.


i found slowness after updating, my Microsoft Teams App got stuck very badly, even chrome browser also not working properly. There is process run in background like indexing. i also add folders in privacy option in spotlight. Boot time increase. but no luck.


i have installed both given app. I have attached both report and screenshot. kindly check and help me.



Jan 29, 2024 1:39 AM in response to pushpendra35

disk0 - APPLE SSD SM0128G 121.33 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

Internal PCI 5.0 GT/s x4 Serial ATA

disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

disk0s2 [APFS Container] 121.12 GB

disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 121.12 GB (Shared by 7 volumes)

disk1s1 - M************************* - Data (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (17.96 GB used)

disk1s2 - M**************** (APFS) (15.41 GB used)

disk1s3 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (271 MB used)

disk1s4 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (1.12 GB used)

disk1s5 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (2.15 GB used)

disk1s6 - Update (APFS) (4 MB used)

disk1s7 (APFS) [APFS Container] (15.41 GB used)

disk1s7s1 - M****************** - Data (APFS) [APFS Snapshot] (15.41 GB used)


The computer has a 128 GB SSD Drive which, sadly is the smallest of small SSD Drive that Apple should have never put on the market


Then, from you report, the disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 121.12 GB (Shared by 7 volumes)


Normally, it should be showing Shared by 6 volumes


You may what to refer to link below regarding Extra Snapshots which under septic situations can be removed


If so, at least 15.41 GB will be returned as usage space


View APFS snapshots in Disk Utility on Mac


Jan 31, 2024 10:14 AM in response to BDAqua

Thank you so much for help me.


I have uninstalled MS Software, but there are some GPU process and windows server taking high CPU, like Google Chrome Helper(GPU), POSTMAN(GPU). I found that WindowServer is taking High CPU. it's intel based mac.


Details

MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017)

Processor 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5

Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Startup Disk MNBVCXZQAZ2WSDCDC - Data

Graphics Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB


Current OS version : macOS Monterey 12.7.3


I Updated on 23rd Jan 2024.


macbook air monterey 12.7.3 is taking high percentage of CPU

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