Q: "bird" process is taking over
I installed Yosemite and configured iCloud Drive. I copied a lot of files yesterday. Today the fan is on constantly. I see a process in Activity Monitor called "bird" that is constantly near 100% CPU. Any ideas what is going on?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Posted on Oct 18, 2014 6:44 AM
by WmsAve,Solvedanswer
Here's what I did. It seemed to work well.
- I unchecked iCloud Drive in System Preferences
- I restored the original files from another backup. They had been deleted and rearranged during my initial attempt to put them on iCloud Drive. I made sure they were in another folder so that when I did the following, the restored files wouldn't get touched
- I went to the iCloud Drive web interface and deleted all files
- I checked iCloud Drive in System Preferences
- A bunch of file showed up in iCloud Drive in Finder – The fan started blowing. I didn't look at Activity Monitor but I'll bet bird was using a lot of CPU
- I deleted all of the files in the Finder (i.e., the iCloud Drive folder)
- Now there were no files in iCloud Drive – either from the browser view or the Finder view. Back to where I started.
- I copied about 2 GB of files to iCloud drive.
- No fan noise. The transfer was relatively quick. I copied another 2 GB of files. Same result.
My conclusion: Do all file curating on the physical drive first. Once I've cleaned up and arranged the files, upload them in small batches. After 20 or 30 GBs have been up loaded, future file uploads and file management in the cloud should be fairly low impact.
Hope that helps someone else.
Mike
Posted on Oct 23, 2014 7:52 AM