Photos Agent using up CPU

I upgraded to 10.10.3 yesterday and tried out the new Photos app.

I imported my medium sized Aperture Library. Since then the fan on my early-2011 15" MBP is running at full tilt incessantly.

I went into the Photos preferences and paused syncing with iCloud Drive for a day, but the Agent is still doing something in the background. Activity Monitor shows the Photos Agent using between 90-125% of my CPU. In addition, 5 of the top 6 processes on my Activity Monitor by %CPU are all related to Photos.

Can I safely quit these processes? Is there any way to dial them back so my MBP doesn't sound like a jet engine?

Help!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 2011 15-inch 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7

Posted on Apr 10, 2015 6:05 AM

19 replies

LarryHN

Level 10

106,142 points

Feb 17, 2016 9:49 AM in response to rscott126

The FiX? Time - Let it finish its initial set up - there is a lot of background processing to do to complete the setup for a new system

Marciifo

Level 1

4 points

Aug 29, 2016 6:38 AM in response to rcostain

I found an answer!

-Open Photos

-go to: Preferences

-click on iCloud

if iCloud Photo Library is enabled

-pause iCloud Photo Library updating

Finish

Oct 3, 2016 2:48 PM in response to Linc Davis

Hi Linc,

Can you please explain what is happening with this problem and im on Mac OS 10.12 Sierra. Is this still the case?

Oct 22, 2016 8:55 AM in response to Linc Davis

It dropped my memory usage from 3.56 to 1.56. Thank you!

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

Photos Agent using up CPU