Hi all -
Anecdotal at the moment, but since upgrading to Yosemite, my MBA (mid 2013) is running warmer and has shorter battery life (reports 1.5hrs @50% remaining) than previously (used to be at least 3.5hrs at 50%).
Only running Outlook 2011 and Safari.
I have an identical machine still on Mavericks, and that's behaving as expected.
Anyone got anything similar to report?
I'll grab some stats and post.
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Check what is actually running (and check that Outlook is up to date, 14.4.5 as of today)
Activity monitor will tell you what's running.
Check what is actually running (and check that Outlook is up to date, 14.4.5 as of today)
Activity monitor will tell you what's running.
Thanks!
mtbserver was sucking up 90%+ of cpu. I've dumped Xamarin and killed the process.
Will monitor...
It's Xarmin Studio, not Xamarin, and even though you 'removed' it I'll doubt that it is actually gone. It has a well documented history of running badly and not uninstalling entirely. It also accepts incoming network connections (for what I have no idea) why do you have this running (so much for only Safari and Outlook)
You need to take a proper look at what is going on, is it a new Mac or was it used?
Download etrecheck, run it and paste the report here (no personal data is included)
Check Outlook's little helpers (Database Daemon etc) they can runaway sometimes, (is your copy of Outlook up to date?)
Reboot and do not start Outlook for a while, monitor the heat again.
I am having the same problem. I have a Macbook Pro 2011. Since downloading Yosemite, my battery runs down much faster than before and my computer is hot and slow. It takes forever to boot up. It has weird glitches like I can't cut and paste from my browsers.
annion wrote:
I am having the same problem. I have a Macbook Pro 2011. Since downloading Yosemite, my battery runs down much faster than before and my computer is hot and slow. It takes forever to boot up. It has weird glitches like I can't cut and paste from my browsers.
You should start your own thread and in it supply a little more detail, I assume you want to fix this.
Start a new thread, post a link to it here.
Thanks Csound1 - Not sure what Xarmin is, I've been using this - http://xamarin.com
However, that looks like it was the culprit - a reference to xtbserver had to be deleted from library/launch agents in order to kill this. Hat tip to Jojo!
Nice and cold again, battery back to around 11hrs.
And no, I've no idea why it was running either - I had *no* idea that it was still kicking around - nothing visible until Yosemite killed it 🙂
asithers wrote:
Nice and cold again, battery back to around 11hrs.
And no, I've no idea why it was running either - I had *no* idea that it was still kicking around - nothing visible until Yosemite killed it 🙂
It's gone now, 🙂
But initially you said it was mtbserver sucking up 90%+ of cpu. and now it's xtbserbver, a typo?
I am having a similar problem with my MBA (mid-2011). I'm seriously considering rolling back to Mountain Lion. Unfortunately I did not make a TimeMachine back up before upgrading. I'd prefer to fix the problem with Yosemite since I didn't make a back up. My activity monitor shows processor idle time at around 75%. Top users SytemUIServer and kernel_task at about 25% each. I'm assuming the % CPU of these processes is % of used processor time, otherwise that doesn't make sense with 75% idle time. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Here is my EtreCheck report:
Problem description:
running hot, short battery life
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated February 22, 2015 at 9:54:43 AM EST
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011) (Technical Specifications)
MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir4,2
1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Not upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 159
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
Color LCD 1440 x 900
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) - Time since boot: 7 days 14:34:1
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE SSD SM128C disk0 : (121.33 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 119.45 GB (54.74 GB free)
Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked Converting
Core Storage: disk0s2 120.47 GB Online
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.sophos.kext.sav (9.2.50 - SDK 10.8) [Click for support]
[loaded] com.sophos.nke.swi (9.2.50 - SDK 10.8) [Click for support]
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore (5.2.3 - SDK 10.4) [Click for support]
/System/Library/Extensions/Seagate Storage Driver.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_4 (5.2.3 - SDK 10.4) [Click for support]
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5 (5.2.3 - SDK 10.5) [Click for support]
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.SeagateDriveIcons (5.2.3 - SDK 10.4) [Click for support]
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[running] com.seagate.TBDecorator.plist [Click for support]
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[running] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist [Click for support]
[running] com.sophos.uiserver.plist [Click for support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]
[running] com.sophos.common.servicemanager.plist [Click for support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[failed] com.amazon.cloud-player.plist [Click for support]
[running] com.amazon.music.plist [Click for support]
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper UNKNOWN Hidden (missing value)
Amazon Cloud Drive Application (/Applications/Amazon Cloud Drive.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.7 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
GarminGpsControl: Version: 4.0.4.0 Release - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Click for support]
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
13% com.apple.WebKit.Networking
9% SophosWebIntelligence
6% Safari
6% SystemUIServer
5% corestoraged
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
421 MB softwareupdated
168 MB SophosScanD
125 MB InterCheck
107 MB Safari
77 MB Finder
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
82 MB Free RAM
1.36 GB Active RAM
1.32 GB Inactive RAM
1.12 GB Wired RAM
12.34 GB Page-ins
72 MB Page-outs
MacBook Air runs hot, short battery life since Yosemite
