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Fans crazy, Accountsd and Securityd hogging CPU

Hi everyone.

Since 10.10.3, my fans have started going off and I've noticed significant performance losses. Activity Monitor tells me that Accountsd and Securityd takes up at least 75% and 12% of CPU, respectively. I've also noticed that I need to revalidate my google account (2-step activation) in system preferences at least twice a day, so I'm suspecting that the two issues are related.

I've tried deleting ~/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite, but to no avail. Does anyone know what to do about it? If I restart, the problems disappear for awhile and then resurfaces.

Cheers,

/JanOnDemand

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 5, 2015 9:18 AM

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Alf83222

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Jun 4, 2015 12:38 AM in response to occino

Thanks for the hint with google account, it worked for me. The problems of fans with securityd and accountsd occured in my Macbook air since I created a new google account for e-mail purpose. I tried first to uncheck, e-mail, calendar and messages that were all checked on that account, it killed securityd and accountsd immediately. Then I rechecked only e-mail, which I only needed. No problems since.

llou_sfx

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Jun 15, 2015 11:37 PM in response to JanOnDemand

got the same problem here...

Jun 18, 2015 1:55 PM in response to JanOnDemand

Yep, same issue for me too. In fact, I've been experiencing this for a while now but recently it has got even worse. Late last year I did a fresh Yosemite install on my old machine (2008 MBP) and it went away briefly, then returned. I recently upgraded to a brand new 2015 MBA and migrated from my old machine. The problem persists.

Quitting Mail instantly returns both processes to normal CPU usage (next to nothing).

It is definitely linked to Gmail accounts. I've just turned off all Gmail accounts and now have Mail open with no CPU-hogging from securityd or accountsd.

Glad this is an issue for others and not just me! Pretty outrageous bug though, if it doesn't get a fix in El Capitan I'll have to think about paying for a dedicated Gmail app, which seems like a ridiculous solution to something that should just ******* work.

bablemem

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Jun 19, 2015 11:36 AM in response to occino

Disabling/enabling Google Email worked for me. I deleted the account and recreated it in hopes that it might be a longer term solution....at least until Apple fixes the problem (hopefully fixes the problem).

Jun 25, 2015 3:50 PM in response to JanOnDemand

Just experienced this problem as well. It's almost certainly connected to the Google two-step verification issue which Apple/Google ridiculously still haven't fixed and which results in repeated password entry requests. Fix it, Apple!

Jun 28, 2015 2:00 PM in response to qwerty909

Absolutely agree. I've spent a fair bit of time tonight playing with the configuration of my Gmail accounts, and I am fairly sure it's if you have two accounts, both using two step verification. Remove all but one and it's smooth sailing...

llou_sfx

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Jul 7, 2015 11:48 PM in response to JanOnDemand

OS X 10.10.4 solved this problem ! 🙂

Kageysea

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Jul 15, 2015 4:20 PM in response to JanOnDemand

Yes! the 10.10.4 update seems to have solved this problem! Thanks Apple.

Fans crazy, Accountsd and Securityd hogging CPU