Level 1

12 points

Excessive Wakeups

Ever since updating to Mavericks 10.9.2, I've been finding entries in my Console log concerning "Excessive Wakeups" Here is a sample:

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3/1/14 9:28:07.000 AM kernel[0]: process EyeTV[95661] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 7041; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 73999

3/1/14 9:28:07.642 AM ReportCrash[95787]: Invoking spindump for pid=95661 wakeups_rate=7041 duration=7 because of excessive wakeups

3/1/14 9:28:09.050 AM spindump[95788]: Saved wakeups_resource.spin report for EyeTV version 3.6.5 (7310) (3.6.5 (7310)) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/EyeTV_2014-03-01-092809_Dans-iMac.wakeups_resou rce.spin

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This is not restricted to just EyeTV. There are numerous applications generating these entries. Each one then creates a Diagnostic report. I am getting hundreds of Diagnostic reports concerning "wakeups" and have finally started deleting them.

None of this seems to create any kind of problem - just an aggrivation.

Any idea what is going on here?

Intel iMac, 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Mar 2, 2014 3:28 PM

42 replies

Mar 14, 2014 5:50 AM in response to dsanfili

Correction reset power options to defaults.

Why can't I edit my post.

jc fly

Level 1

8 points

Mar 15, 2014 11:33 PM in response to dsanfili

Yep. My mid-2013 MBA is freezing up. After force-restarting the logs have the excessive wakeups message.

Mar 26, 2014 7:18 AM in response to dsanfili

Did not last long,

May 12, 2014 1:22 AM in response to Ton Van Hest

Have now v3.5.6 running for almost 24 hours. Ony a simgle spindump and no stuttering or missing frames.

mkummer

Level 2

297 points

May 17, 2014 1:30 AM in response to mkummer

Still no change with 10.9.3 - sad.

May 17, 2014 5:10 AM in response to mkummer

I have now 10.9.3 + EyeTV 3.6.5 (=latest!) and see a spindump about once an hour. But have been once playing recordings so must see howrecording will be.

macOS11

Level 3

931 points

May 17, 2014 6:06 AM in response to dsanfili

Make a diagnostic report and send it directly to Apple, it seems to be a complex bug.

Jul 1, 2014 8:58 AM in response to John Galt

So I'm assuming by your curt reply that you'd suggest I disable McAfee?

tbirdvet

Level 6

17,060 points

Feb 17, 2015 2:09 PM in response to tbirdvet

Well the messages in console returned so I guess the external drive analysis was wrong. Was OK for 4 days then they returned so not sure where to look now.

Nov 19, 2015 7:49 AM in response to fltman

Thanks! This and the response from 'Barney-15E' seem like the most logical explanation. I won't worry about the entries any longer...

Joe

Jmvbmw

Level 1

4 points

Feb 19, 2017 1:59 PM in response to fltman

And how you do that? set all you progress indicators to false?

Jul 17, 2017 12:06 AM in response to dsanfili

Did you ever get an answer for this problem? I have just an iPhone 5S, it's nothing special and I've got excessive wake ups in my diagnostics. My phone has been doing weird things

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