Guide: How to solve Yosemite memory leaks and CPU usage

Tamaralas wrote:

Resolved the issue. My computer has returned from being virtually unusable to being quite useful.

Why don't you share your solution with others.

You'll see it in the original post:

Guide: How to solve Yosemite memory leaks and CPU usage

I've done everything your article had mentioned, but my memory usage still around 100%.

helderfsl wrote:

I've done everything your article had mentioned, but my memory usage still around 100%.

Then it's operating as designed. The only thing you need to pay attention to is the MEMORY PRESSURE graph at the bottom of the page. As long as it's green you are good to go. See the Memory section of How to use Activity Monitor.

People don't seem to understand that. Apple has underestimated the user's perception of the current display going the wrong way.

Problem description:

I keep getting the spinning wheel and tried the recommendations to repair permissions, resent SMC and PRAM and still get the spinning wheel from Yosemite. Any other ideas. I replied to Luis and did not get a response. Can you help MadMacs0?

EtreCheck version: 2.1.2 (105)

Report generated December 22, 2014 at 5:02:47 PM EST

Hardware Information: ℹ️

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Intel Core i7, 15" (Mid 2012)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro10,1

1 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core

8 GB RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ℹ️

Intel HD Graphics 4000 -

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MB

Color LCD spdisplays_2880x1800Retina

System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 3 days 22:33:15

Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE SSD SD512E disk0 : (500.28 GB)

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 499.06 GB (34.33 GB free) - 111 errors

Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked

Core Storage: disk0s2 499.42 GB Online

USB Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Apple Inc. Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

/Applications/SyncMate.app

[not loaded] com.eltima.SyncMate.kext (0.2.5b15) [Support]

/Applications/Wireless Auto Import.app

[not loaded] com.sony.driver.dsccamFirmwareUpdaterType00 (1 - SDK 10.5) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.Belcarra.iokit.USBLAN_netpart (2.0.2) [Support]

[not loaded] com.Belcarra.iokit.USBLAN_usbpart (2.0.2) [Support]

[not loaded] com.RemoteControl.USBLAN.usbpart (2.0.6) [Support]

[not loaded] com.elgato.driver.DontMatchCinergyXS (1.1) [Support]

[loaded] com.protech.NoSleep (1.3.0 - SDK 10.7) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions/Belcarra.USBLAN_netpart.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.belcarra.iokit.netpart.panther (1.6.1) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions/Belcarra.USBLAN_usbpart.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.belcarra.iokit.usbpart.panther (1.6.1) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions/RemoteControl.USBLAN_usbpart.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.RemoteControl.USBLAN.panther (1.6.1) [Support]

Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️

[failed] com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist

[failed] com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy.plist

Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️

[failed] com.apple.ctkd.plist [Details]

[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist [Details]

Launch Agents: ℹ️

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]

[running] com.sony.WirelessAutoImportLauncher.agent.plist [Support]

[running] syncmateStarter.plist [Support]

Launch Daemons: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Support]

User Launch Agents: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Support]

[running] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist [Support]

[running] com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist [Support]

User Login Items: ℹ️

Microsoft Database Daemon Application (/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon.app)

IDriveMonitor UNKNOWN (missing value)

iTunesHelper UNKNOWN (missing value)

NoSleepHelper Application (/Applications/Utilities/NoSleepHelper.app)

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

AdobeResourceSynchronizer ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Adobe Reader.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

LogitechHarmony: Version: 1.0.0.1 [Support]

o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 [Support]

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 [Support]

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.2.9 [Support]

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 1.3 [Support]

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20513.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8

googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.6 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

ContentUploaderPlugin: Version: 1.2 [Support]

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version

User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

fbplugin_1_0_3: Version: Unknown [Support]

WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.39 [Support]

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.2 [Support]

Audio Plug-ins: ℹ️

DVCPROHDAudio: Version: 1.2

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

Akamai NetSession Preferences [Support]

DivX [Support]

Flash Player [Support]

Flip4Mac WMV [Support]

MacFUSE [Support]

NoSleep [Support]

Perian [Support]

Time Machine: ℹ️

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: ON

Auto backup: YES

Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 499.06 GB Disk used: 464.72 GB

Destinations:

Touro Backup Drive HDD [Network]

Total size: 999.52 GB

Total number of backups: 13

Oldest backup: 2014-08-11 14:32:02 +0000

Last backup: 2014-12-18 16:32:21 +0000

Size of backup disk: Too small

Backup size 999.52 GB < (Disk used 464.72 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

9% WindowServer

5% mds

1% iPhoto

0% fontd

0% ps

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

326 MB Mail

249 MB WindowServer

232 MB Pages

206 MB Calendar

206 MB Messages

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

77 MB Free RAM

2.59 GB Active RAM

2.53 GB Inactive RAM

1.42 GB Wired RAM

11.14 GB Page-ins

162 MB Page-outs

Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

JimW67 wrote:

I replied to Luis and did not get a response. Can you help MadMacs0?

Posting a new problem to a very long discussion like this is usually a waste of time. If you don't see anything that helps it's always best to start a new discussion which will bring you many more troubleshooters a lot faster.

In glancing over your report I do see a lot of old software and some that are known to cause issues for some users, but first you need to deal with:

Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE SSD SD512E disk0 : (500.28 GB)

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 499.06 GB (34.33 GB free) - 111 errors

I suspect it's red because you don't have enough free space, but I have no idea what 111 errors means. Getting a bigger SSD is probably out-of-the-question, so I think you need to off-load some files to an external drive.

Also note that you aren't using the latest version of EtreCheck which appears to be 2.1.5 which has some bug fixes that might be important.

Thanks MacSound0 . according to the report I have 34GB available and I can make this error go away when I run it in safe mode and rein repair permissions. However shortly after rebooting and running computer for a while it will start to slow down again after 15-20 minutes. What old software do you see that could be a problem?

Hi JimW67,

You should keep about 15% of your harddrive free. Thus MadMacs0 is correct, and you should store some old data / files on an external. The alternative would be a bigger internal HD. The free HD space is used by OS X to run better and faster. If there is less than just more than 10% left on the startup, it becomes problematic for the OS.

Hope this helps

This worked for a few hours, however it's back to where it was. I have no apps open, yet windowServer consuming around 90% CPU 😕 Everything is sluggish and slow, as if I am sitting on a virtual machine. I shouldn't have upgraded to Yosemite, I hated it from it's name the first time I heard it, it sounds like some yeast infection 😕 now I hate it even more 😠

Turned off Displays have separate spaces in the Mission Control System Preference. Then Restart or Re-Login

No More Leak, Windowserver went from 50-96% CPU usage to 1-10%

I'm on a iMac 27" late 2012 and tried the OPs suggestion twice but it didn't solve the crashes. I'm not using an external monitor. I tried this suggestion to turn off 'have separate spaces' and so far no crashes. I was getting them many times a day. Hopefully this is the solution!

Same here, Separate Spaces was causing the CPU for WindowServer to reach 90%, now it's around 10%

Well I thought this solved my problem but I just had my first crash today. I only had one user logged in and when it automatically went to the login screen after idle (because I have my security settings that way) It showed it not logged in. Really hoping Apple has a fix in the works! I haven't had this many crashes since 1984!

Thank you very much, Luis !

I followed your instructions and my free memory came back from 2,0 GB (average) to 3,7 GB (like used to work before Yosemite). Thank you very much!