Yosemite high CPU usage by "launchd"

Hello,


My MacBook Pro Mid 2012 has been having this issue of launchd just using up 85% of my memory and I can't figure out what the problem is that is causing this. It is starting to get annoying now because my battery is dying faster than ever, and quickly overheating.


Can anyone guide me or help solve this issue?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 6:08 AM

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Feb 18, 2016 5:19 PM in response to DJLoRrIs

I'm also having the problem. Running hot and launchd taking up 90%+ of the CPU. I ran the system log and it's obviously trying to run something a thousand times a minute. Any idea what it is?


Feb 18 19:16:26 Chases-MacBook-Pro-3 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.WebTools.oiuqw343sQ9a[72883]): Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Jun 9, 2017 2:46 PM in response to kvanderw

Thank you for this recommendation. I had the same issue and it the launchd process was always around of 60-70% of CPU time and was killing the overall performance. I tried the download recommended for the malware but that did not work. I did as you suggested. Moved all my files in /library/LaunchAgents and /library/LaunchDaemons to a sub directory in those folders. Rebooted and all was fine. launchd was below 2%. One by one (including the Adobe files) added them back. All but one was the culprit, left it out, rebooted and we good to go. Thanks again for the recommendation.

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