Yosemite high CPU usage by "launchd"

I don't remember having used CleanMyMac though, is it the cause of my problem?

At second thought maybe I did install it once, but many operative systems earlier, I thought it would all be gone. Turns out there was a couple of plist-files left in the /Library/Preferences.

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks - I used this info to find that Focusrite VRM Box software was causing the problem. I hadn't used this for a long time and found that the software was incompatible with Yosemite. So as you suggested, it was trying to launch. Deleting the VRM Box application solved the problem.

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!

Wow, I almost bought a new Hard Drive thinking the drive was failing, followed OmarWomars guide and discovered it was Google Chrome listed with errors. Deleted Google Chrome and my MacBook is like new again!! 🙂😍

THANKYOU VERY MUCH!!!

oh and Google...... sort your software out! 😮

Hey Omar,

Thanks for this post, I am having exactly the same issue, but I cant figure out the application causing the problem, I get the following in the system.log..

May 22 08:47:02 Zacharys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (/var/root/Library/betulinic/betulinic[45396]): Service setup event to handle failure and will not launch until it fires.

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.

run etrecheck list.

Thank You, It's working, i find the problem 😉