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Fan is blowing like **** after installing Yosemite on MBP (early 2011)

Problem description:

I installed Yosemite on my MacBookPro 13’ early 2011, the fan is blowing on high speed.

I tried the following:

I did SMC, also rebooted in safe mode, removed everything from spotlight, nothing seams to help.

In the activity monitor there are Dock, lsregister and Spotlight that together more than 300% of the cpu.


EtreCheck version: 2.0.6 (91)

Report generated 24 oktober 2014 15:16:30 CEST


Hardware Information:ℹ️

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) (Verified)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1

1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n


Video Information:ℹ️

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB

Color LCD 1280 x 800


System Software:ℹ️

OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 0:17:17


Disk Information:ℹ️

Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 disk0 : (500,11 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) / [Startup]: 498.88 GB (167.77 GB free)

Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online


MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898


USB Information:ℹ️

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver


Thunderbolt Information:ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Gatekeeper:ℹ️

Mac App Store and identified developers


Kernel Extensions:ℹ️

/System/Library/Extensions

[loaded] VirtualAudioDriver (1 - SDK 10.6)

[not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBCDCACMControl (1.1.2) Support

[not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBCDCACMData (1.1.2) Support

[not loaded] com.wacom.kext.pentablet (5.2.1) Support

[not loaded] com.wacom.kext.wacomtablet (6.3.6b6 - SDK 10.8) Support

[not loaded] net.osculator.driver.OSCulatorIOKit (1.2.2) Support


Launch Agents:ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager.plist Support

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

[running] com.wacom.pentablet.plist Support

[running] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist Support


Launch Daemons:ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS4.plist Support

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

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist Support


User Launch Agents:ℹ️

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

[invalid?] com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist Support

[loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist Support

[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist Support

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist Support

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist Support

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist Support

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support


User Login Items:ℹ️

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

Google Drive Application (/Applications/Google Drive.app)

Google Chrome ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Google Chrome.app)

FontExplorerXAutoload ApplicationHidden (/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/Linotype/FontExplorer X/FontExplorerXAutoload.app)

EvernoteHelper Application (/Users/[redacted]/.Trash/Evernote (450845).app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/EvernoteHelper.app)


Internet Plug-ins:ℹ️

o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support

WacomNetscape: Version: 2.1.0-1 - SDK 10.8 Support

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.0 Support

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.4.0.11 Support

OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 Support

WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.2 Support

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support

DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.2 Support

WidevineMediaOptimizer: Version: 6.0.0.12757 - SDK 10.7 Support

Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support

Gears: Version: 1.0 Support

CitrixICAClientPlugIn: Version: 11.2.0 Support

googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.5 Support

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 6.0

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version


User Internet Plug-ins:ℹ️

CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.105 Support

WebEx: Version: 1.0 Support


Safari Extensions:ℹ️

AdBlock

Pinterest


3rd Party Preference Panes:ℹ️

Adobe Version Cue CS4 Support

Citrix Online Plug-in Support

DivX Support

Flash Player Support

Flip4Mac WMV Support

Growl Support


Time Machine:ℹ️

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: ON

Auto backup: YES

Destinations:

WD 3T [Local]

Total size: 3 TB

Total number of backups: 52

Oldest backup: 2013-05-25 18:11:16 +0000

Last backup: 2014-10-24 11:12:27 +0000

Size of backup disk: Excellent

Backup size 3 TB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)


Top Processes by CPU:ℹ️

99% Dock

95% lsregister

71% Spotlight

7% mdworker

3% WindowServer


Top Processes by Memory:ℹ️

155 MB Google Chrome

141 MB Google Chrome Helper

103 MB Spotlight

103 MB Google Drive

94 MB Activity Monitor


Virtual Memory Information:ℹ️

1.70 GB Free RAM

4.61 GB Active RAM

786 MB Inactive RAM

1.49 GB Wired RAM

1.39 GB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs


MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB

Posted on Oct 24, 2014 6:27 AM

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Posted on Oct 29, 2014 12:11 PM

I turned off Spotlight (added all drives to privacy or using command line as suggested already) and ran the following:


/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fram ework/Support/lsregister -kill -u -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network


/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fram ework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network



This immediately dropped the CPU usage from 100% down to almost 0%. So far it seems to have fixed my problems. Took a LOT of digging around to finally resolve this.

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Oct 29, 2014 12:11 PM in response to creacomp

I turned off Spotlight (added all drives to privacy or using command line as suggested already) and ran the following:


/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fram ework/Support/lsregister -kill -u -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network


/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fram ework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network



This immediately dropped the CPU usage from 100% down to almost 0%. So far it seems to have fixed my problems. Took a LOT of digging around to finally resolve this.

Oct 29, 2014 4:22 PM in response to creacomp

Un-install CleanMyMac2. It may be the cause of the problems Software like this isn't required on Macs.


CleanMyMac2 Un-install


After un-installing, run thos program to make sure you got all the pieces.


EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement

Fans run - Mac notebooks - Spotlight


Try a SMC reset. The article covers when this is required, but doing this will not affect anything.


Reset SMC

Fan is blowing like **** after installing Yosemite on MBP (early 2011)

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