High CPU Usage for Google Drive...Any Known Fix?
I posted this over in the Google support forums, but I figured I'd throw it over here to see if anyone had any thoughts on it.
In the past couple of days, I noticed that my CPU temperature had been much higher than normal...cracking 70º C when idle and, of course, getting warmer when doing other things. As a result, fan speeds ramp up and battery life lessons (I monitor all this with the iStat Pro dashboard widget). I considered doing an SMC reset (and still kept it in my back pocket if the problem persisted). The first thing I did was see what, if anything, was taxing the CPU. I opened Activity Monitor and noted, to my surprise, that Google Drive (running the newest build, 1.19.8406.6504) was using 100% of my CPU! And doing so just sitting in my menubar doing nothing. I quit drive and, within, minutes, my CPU temperature dropped almost 30º. The temperature has, since, been staying put in the 40º-50º C range and the fans speeds around 2000 RPM...both considered "normal" ranges for near-idle behavior on my MacBook. Resetting the SMC has remained unnecessary.
Any other Google Drive users out there who have seen this problem? Anyone found a fix? Thanks.
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
