homever
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Q: Photos app high cpu usage

God, after import from iPhoto library, this Photos app constantly has 200-300% CPU usage.

 

Any one has this issue?

Posted on Apr 8, 2015 8:28 PM

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Q: Photos app high cpu usage

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  • by homever,

    homever homever Apr 8, 2015 10:21 PM in response to homever
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    Apr 8, 2015 10:21 PM in response to homever

    I guess we just need a bit patience. The new Photos app may need some time to deal with the faces recognition or somewhat process.

    After 7min or so, depending on how big your library is, CPU usage becomes normal ( < 10%).

  • by anmsat,

    anmsat anmsat Apr 9, 2015 1:48 AM in response to homever
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    Apr 9, 2015 1:48 AM in response to homever

    I experience a similar issue.

    Every time I open Photos.app, this app causes a 100% CPU load.

    After about 10 minutes it "drops" to 80% CPU load.

    My MacBookPro sounds like a starting JumboJet

    After about 25 minutes the CPU load turns back to normal.

    Is that behavior normal for Photos.app?

    The "old" iPhoto.app never needed that high amount of CPU time.

     

    Has anybody suggestions, how to fix that?

     

    The "photolibraryd" process needs from time to time some CPU time.  Wich seems normal to me.

  • by LL1006,

    LL1006 LL1006 Apr 9, 2015 7:15 AM in response to homever
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    Apr 9, 2015 7:15 AM in response to homever

    I had a similar issue with high Photos cpu usage. I have an iPhoto library with ~ 40 GB photos stored outside of iPhoto on a SDXC card. After migrating the iPhoto library to Photos, the Photos program uses ~100% cpu whenever I start the program. I thought the program might be doing with the faces and preview  thus left the program open and running. Three hours late it continued the high cpu usage. I gave up and back to iPhoto. FYI, there is even no option in Photos to turn on/off collecting faces.

  • by xtedx,

    xtedx xtedx Apr 13, 2015 2:23 AM in response to homever
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    Apr 13, 2015 2:23 AM in response to homever

    same here on. it has been running overnight, , total cpu time so far is 18 hours of about 200% cpu usage since importing.

    i quit once at about 8 hours, and then i left on again overnight for another 10 hours.

    still.. it seems too much of processing time..

    i checked the "opened files" from activity monitor and compared, i could see that the app is reading and processing different photos, thumbnails, and face data each time.

     

    i'll leave it on overnight again and see how it goes, then i'll decide if i should keep this or go back to iPhoto

     

    data:

    iphoto library is about 220gb with 20k photos+videos. on a usb drive

    macbook air 1.8ghz

  • by xtedx,

    xtedx xtedx Apr 14, 2015 3:24 AM in response to xtedx
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    Apr 14, 2015 3:24 AM in response to xtedx

    ok, just an update:

    turned out that it finished processing after a total of 25 hours cpu time.. phew. that's about 12 photos/videos per minute

    i was just wondering why there was no indicator of the progress, or why did it have to reprocess the whole library although it converted the iphoto data.

  • by kennethfromsurrey,

    kennethfromsurrey kennethfromsurrey Nov 4, 2015 1:08 AM in response to homever
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    Nov 4, 2015 1:08 AM in response to homever

    I'm seeing this 100% CPU usage too, but in my case, I am not able to import even a single photo in Photos.


    It just beachballs forever.

     

    This is ridiculous.  How does something like this get released?

     

    And just while I was trying to deal with this and search for answers on the internet, my keyboards stopped responding.  Alt-Tab worked, but nothing else.  Neither the laptop's built in keyboard would work nor the USB keyboard.  Tried all sorts of things to fix it, but ended up rebooting to fix it.

     

    What the **** is going on at Apple these days?

  • by KiltedGreen,

    KiltedGreen KiltedGreen Nov 24, 2015 5:52 AM in response to homever
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    Nov 24, 2015 5:52 AM in response to homever

    7 minutes would be nice. I have this so far today on top of almost three hours yesterday. I'm just hoping it will stop at some point ...

     

    iMac is still usual performance though at least.

    Screen Shot 2015-11-24 at 13.51.25.png

  • by jyppy65,

    jyppy65 jyppy65 Dec 3, 2015 5:17 PM in response to KiltedGreen
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    Dec 3, 2015 5:17 PM in response to KiltedGreen

    This is now getting ridiculous, Photos has been running for days now:

     

    Screen Shot 2015-12-04 at 12.16.02 PM.png

     

    Large library ~200GB with about 15 years of pics

  • by Alex Neil,

    Alex Neil Alex Neil Dec 21, 2015 6:31 AM in response to jyppy65
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    Dec 21, 2015 6:31 AM in response to jyppy65

    I migrated about 40,000 images from Aperture into Photos.

     

    Photos ran high CPU for 3 days.

     

    Now when I start Photos CPU runs high on and off.  I suspect it's doing absurd amounts of housekeeping under the covers.  But for the first 30 minutes or so it's ridiculous.

  • by Apple-Eric,

    Apple-Eric Apple-Eric Oct 9, 2016 7:04 PM in response to anmsat
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    Oct 9, 2016 7:04 PM in response to anmsat

    I've seen this on almost every update. It does take quite a bit of CPU % on the user account but in most cases its because of the quality of the photos / videos. I love the Photo's App because of all the features but I can agree that it can cause high activity. The best thing to do is to give it time, if you have a Photo library like I do (28,000 photos) it can take awhile for the Faces feature and now on Sierra the People's feature. I love this feature in Photos but it took a couple days for it to complete and really lower the CPU usage because of the size of my library. I know this post was from last year but I figured since a new update was out, that I'd follow up with something similar because of the new Photo's features. If your Mac is running hard and starts up sounding like a Jumbo Jet lol, rest the SMC. On laptops, Turn off Mac > unplug power source for 15 sec > plug back in and press down (while the Mac is still off) Shift, Control, Option and Power button at the same time for less than a second > nothing should happen > then power on.

     

    On Sierra the program I saw running the hardest was Photoanalysisd, and the User CPU consistent around 80%. If this is is what you'r seeing then the best thing to do is stay patience and minimize Mac usage until Photo's is complete.

    You can tell this on Sierra by opening Photo's and selecting "People" and this will show you how many it still has to complete. When the Photo's App is open, the Photoanalysisd will pause until Photo's is closed.

     

    With new updates come's new features that each Mac handles differently because the Programs & Components / Memory, Storage, & Age are.....different.

     

    Hope this helps!