Macbook Pro M1Pro always at 100% on efficiency cores - OS very slow!!

Hello Grant,

Thanks for the lead. Maybe it is something related to this bug. The issue is much worse after waking up (coming from home to work for example) and opening again my computer after connecting my external screens... For example, here are some captures of the processes that run just after wake up and screen connexion this morning (with also my time machine disk connected). As you can see I'm at 100% on both cores 1 & 2.

My main issue is that I'm already on MacOS 14.2.1, so if this is issue, it should be solved according to your description 😓

Eheh, that would be too easy. i'm not using any antivirus (or optimization app) myself. I know they are useless, and usually slow down the computer. However, the computer was bought b my employer (university) and the informatics services installs F-Secure as the official antivirus for all computers.

Also, regarding your statement:

Third-party file Sync-ers such as DropBox, BackBlaze, OneDrive, or GoogleDrive can ruin performance, but are not inherently dangerous.

This is quite absurd, as these applications are part of most users' daily lives. If you cannot use the apps you want on your wonderful Macbook Pro that you paid a fortune, just because Apple and MacOS doesn't provide you with enough power, that's quite ridiculous 😅. Not saying that one or two Apps can be very badly optimized and shall be avoided, but common... If you cannot use GoogleDrive on your mac without ruining your performances, while a ChromeBook can 😝.

But the main issue with this statement here is that neither F-Secure, nor any sync apps are the major processes running in my Mac according to all the softwares/commands I use to list the softwares...

Finally regarding the Malwares policy, again I'm fully aware about Apple techniques, and I don't want to start a debate here (as I'm convinced I don't really need F-Secure (I already use other methods for detection)),but you're only very partially true about your conclusions. Your Mac is way less secured than what you think ;-) (Unless of course you don't go to the internet, only install Apps from the MacAppStore or even better only use the default installed ones). 😊

Thanks but as it is written in the report, the kext is not engaged (sorry the report is in french ^^). So it doesn't do nothing. It is just there from the Sensei app which I use for the Geekbench benchmarks. I don't force enabling the TRIM :-) But thanks for the command anyway.

Again, this is not reasonable advice at all 🙂, especially as Apple doesn't support a whole host of VPN protocols natively. And it would be illusory to imagine that an advanced user could use his Mac without using a VPN. Not everyone can connect to their company network using IPSec... 😅 So, once again, it's a No Go for me. TunnelBlick will stay because I need it to connect to my university's servers 😊

As for Cleverfile, I only use it for deep file searches on keys and I've deactivated backup systems. Note that the problem was there long before I installed it last week ^^

As for DaisyDisk, I wonder why since the application only scans the disk when the command is launched.

And as for F-Secure, once again, see reason given above. But above all, for the moment it's deactivated (even if I don't have the right) and I still have the worry ^^.

Yup, but the only thing I have to "protect me" is F-secure, and I didn't install it myself. 😊 The rest are, in worse case, utilities I don't run permanently but only when I need.

Nonetheless, 1) even in safe mode I still have the issue (so with all background running services disabled), and 2) it's a bit a pity that a wonderful 10cores Macbook Pro with the super great M1Pro (according to Apple) cannot handle few utilities

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Hello,

Sadly i think you didn't read in enough detail I guess. First I tried in safe mode and issue's still there. And if you cannot install Tunnelblick on a Macbook these days I don't understand the point of buying these expensive machines anymore. But it may be that he's only targeting the less sophisticated consumers now... Who knows?

"And yeah, I’d also prefer to avoid keeping backups on the same disk, though macOS can do that implicitly as part of Time Machine (so-called local snapshots), and as I’d want that external backup anyway."

So you effectively didn't read much (neither the discussion, or the report) as I do not have local back up, but only time machine one on an external drive. The "local timeshots" were related to the Disk Drill, and were only an assomption from Grant Bennet-Alder as I don't use the feature. please read a bit more carefully before giving me advices 😊👍

Apparently you didn't read either... too bad. I cannot uninstall F-secure as it's my IT department who installed it and it's part of the required app in my university. But apparently there's need for me to repeat it 😉

Ahhhhhhh ok then I understand better. 😊 No don't worry, just you know which type of Mac user I am, I use to repair Macs for customers of an APR when I was a teenager. I'm on Mac since I'm 7 (back in 1997). So I'm quite familiar with the OS (not saying I cannot learn stuffs from time to time 😃). BTW I'll enable the TRIM then. I thought I read somewhere that with the latest version of macOS this was not needed :-)

But sadly this doesn't explain (at least entirely) my issue with the core saturation (also, I could find some others have the same issue ça et là on the internet).

Yes I did state it: 😊

But, if I come back more seriously to the matter here, my main concern is that my very old, 4-cores i5 4690-based hackintosh (which doesn't have F-secure I agree) doesn't have the issues my (almost) brand new M1Pro 10cores chip has...

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