Tim Jones13
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Q: identityservicesd is running at 100% CPU

What would cause the identityservicesd process to jump to 100% CPU since Thursday?  Nothing has changed on the system.  It also appears that sharingd and securityd are also running with high CPU (40% + )

 

Yosemite 10.10.3, Retina MBP, 16GB

I tried editing my setting to update the product info, but I keep getting thrown out of the support community

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 16GB / Thunderbolt LTO-5 / BRU PE

Posted on Jun 7, 2015 9:40 AM

by Tim Jones13,Solvedanswer
Tim Jones13 Tim Jones13
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The only user-land app running is Finder and Terminal / top (until I logged into this in Safari, that is).  Everything else is system.

 

I've now created a new user and logged in with that user, attached to my iCloud account and things are stable.  Identityservicesd is now sitting at 0%.

 

Luckily, I don't store my important files in my user account folder hierarchy and have daily BRU backups, so no worries about the data.  Just frustrated that the system could get so sideways and unusable for no apparent reason.

 

Oh, for the management simplicity and stability of 10.4.11...

Posted on Jun 7, 2015 12:42 PM

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jun 7, 2015 10:10 AM in response to Tim Jones13
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    Jun 7, 2015 10:10 AM in response to Tim Jones13

    Please sign out of iCloud in its preference pane and see whether there's any change. No data will be removed from the servers, and you can retrieve it by signing back in. That said, you should always have a current archive of the data for safety's sake, even if you don't sign out.

    If you use iCloud Keychain, when you sign back in to iCloud follow one of the procedures described in this support article to set it up on an additional device.

  • by Tim Jones13,

    Tim Jones13 Tim Jones13 Jun 7, 2015 12:01 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jun 7, 2015 12:01 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Thanks, Linc, but that was the obvious move and I'd already done that.  That's why I posted.  I thought that it was somehow tied to something besides iCloud.

     

    I'm current logged out of iCloud and it's still at 110% and my fans are full on.

  • by Tim Jones13,

    Tim Jones13 Tim Jones13 Jun 7, 2015 12:16 PM in response to Tim Jones13
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    Jun 7, 2015 12:16 PM in response to Tim Jones13

    I've now made sure that I'm logged out of every remote account and it's still hovering at 110%.  I even went so far as to reboot with the network completely disabled.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jun 7, 2015 12:29 PM in response to Tim Jones13
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    Jun 7, 2015 12:29 PM in response to Tim Jones13

    Please quit all running applications, one at a time, starting with Mail, and see whether there's any change.

  • by Tim Jones13,Solvedanswer

    Tim Jones13 Tim Jones13 Jun 7, 2015 12:42 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jun 7, 2015 12:42 PM in response to Linc Davis

    The only user-land app running is Finder and Terminal / top (until I logged into this in Safari, that is).  Everything else is system.

     

    I've now created a new user and logged in with that user, attached to my iCloud account and things are stable.  Identityservicesd is now sitting at 0%.

     

    Luckily, I don't store my important files in my user account folder hierarchy and have daily BRU backups, so no worries about the data.  Just frustrated that the system could get so sideways and unusable for no apparent reason.

     

    Oh, for the management simplicity and stability of 10.4.11...

  • by ekrock12345,

    ekrock12345 ekrock12345 Aug 20, 2015 4:56 PM in response to Tim Jones13
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    Aug 20, 2015 4:56 PM in response to Tim Jones13

    I'm having the same issue with identityservicesd, and logging out of icloud didn't solve it for me either. Any suggestions are welcome!