Just updated to El Capitan - now running process "suggestd" all the time

Hi,

I had the same problem with "suggestd" taking up CPU resource and making my iMac really slow. I removed the ~/Library/Suggestions folder into the trash (didn't empty trash), logged out, and log back in. But now my computer screen is black showing only the mouse (movable), and the hard drive is running constantly. It went on for the whole night. I hard reset and after the start up progress bar completed, the screen still turns black, desktop doesn't show up, only see the mouse, and hard drive keeps running. Help!

Johnny

I force shut down my MacMini running 10.11.6 after hitting a stall that may have been related to this, and hit the suggestd stall when I booted up. Tried your recommendation, but by nothing was highlighted in the suggstd folder. By the time I got to that point, suggstd was down to 0.0% of CPU most of the time. Does that mean it's done what it needed to do, or is it still likely to start hogging the Mac again?

Should I remove the entire "suggestions" folder? I do not see any particular item called "suggestd".

Hi Linc

You provided sage instruction (as usual), but didn't answer the OP first question: What is this?

Have the same issue; opening up a terminal session and using

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.suggestd.plist

Stops it, for now...

I used your method. At the moment, it seems to have resolved the problem. I will research further. FYI The problem did not start until I opened Calendar on El Cap for the first time.

I am in Library but there is no folder Suggestions