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"LiveUpd" emerges from nowhere, have no idea for what is that update. I've no Norton / Symantec software on MAC — there is information on internet about problems with LiveUpdate for those products on PCs. No specific time or situation noticed, when they appear numerous active at once and after that they stop responding. Image of situation below.
OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I had the same problem, and followed yogaprakash's recommendation. Turns out it was an app I installed to use a internet-dongle (Mobile Connect - the actual dongle is produced by Huawei).
I googled the app which caused yogaprakash problems (MBlaze), and it looks like it is a similar app, so maybe they share software somehow.
Maybe someone at least have suggestion what application is connected to this LiveUpd? Otherwise it is impossible to work sometimes, only restart helps.
Check the CPU column and sort to see which App may be hogging the CPU and RAM.
Do you have Norton AV installed on your MBP? If so delete it. You have no need for it.
Ciao.
I've mentioned that there are no and have never been any Notron / Symantec software on my Mac. So this is something else.
I'll check once more next time, but actually CPU activity is very low at that time, only RAM is overloaded.
Yesterday tried to go through all applications and manually check for all updates, even reinstalled part of them. After that done some cleanups and checkups, deleted ~10GB unnecessary system etc. files. No success — LiveUpd is back and hangs everything. Tried to do normal restart — MAC closed all programs, it was blank background picture, it was possible to open "Force Quit" window, but there were no active applications there — blank. Waited maybe 20 minutes, restarted manually by pushing power button. After restart usually this LiveUpd comes back, but I manage to manually Force Quit them one by one ir Activity Monitor and then everyting is OK until some moment after x hours, when they all are back.
There was question, how looks Activity Monitor CPU activity at that moment, so there is a picture at moment when it's too late. RAM is overloaded first, CPU can cope with LiveUpd at that moment.
Installed new Adobe Flash Player. Then tried safe boot. While on safe mode, there were no LiveUpd. Now I'm trying to use Mac in normal mode, just switched it on and now I'm spending some time killing these LiveUpd. So safe boot was OK, but no changes after that.
That suggests to me that there is a third party item that is creating these 'LiveUpd's'. Generally deleting all third party items and reinstalling them systematically is called for in order to find the 'problem child'. The other option is to do a clean install of your MBP and reinstall all items judiciously so that the offender is not reinstalled or is found.
Ciao.
As I almost don't use third party applications, problem has to be somewhere else.
I hope that I've found the source of LiveUpd — Mail application gone crazy. Now switched from IMAP to POP and turned mail checking from automatic to each 5 min. I'll post after day if it will be without the problem.
It was OK for a while, but just now problem came back and hundreds of LiveUpd overloaded RAM. I'm 100% sure that LiveUpd is connected with Apple Mail software — without Mail there are no signs of LiveUpd in Activity Monitor at all.
So, is there any advice how to solve this problem regarding Apple Mail, version 8.1? I'm not sure is it possible to reinstall only Mail, have to look for some advice.
Seems like others have many problems with Mail, mine is only little different. Result the same — Mac crashes and can't restart itself.
P.S. I don't have any Google account connected, I don't have a Google account or any products at all.
I do not use Mail app so I cannot offer any guidance there.
Ciao.
I had the same issue, lots of LiveUpd processes running, most of them not responding.
In Activity Monitor, click one of the LiveUpd processes, and then click the Gear icon -> Sample process.
The sample output will show the path of the executable file associated with the process. In my case, it was this MBlaze app that I downloaded to connect to internet.
If the sample output doesn't work for you, try the 'i' button to get information about the process. In this window, you can click on 'Open Files and Ports' to check the names of the files associated with the app. This may give you some clues as to what the associated app is.
Hundreds of "LiveUpd" in Activity Monitor. Eats up all RAM
