Fan goes crazy after El Capitan clean install

Hi All,

I removed the memory clean and 1password mini and it seems no more errors from killing processes due to lack of RAM but the fan keep going.. and going.. 😟

I also run the hardware test but nothing was found.. shall I put the mac in the fridge?? 🙂

Thanks for any other ideas...

EtreCheck version: 2.9.9 (260)

Report generated 2016-03-05 14:53:39

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Runtime 3:38

Performance: Good

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Problem: Other problem

Description:

Fan high speed… phase 2

Hardware Information: ⓘ

MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir3,2

1 2,13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core

4 GB RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 863

Video Information: ⓘ

NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB

Color LCD 1440 x 900

System Software: ⓘ

OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 (15D21) - Time since boot: less than an hour

Disk Information: ⓘ

APPLE SSD TS256C disk0 : (251 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 250.14 GB (129.89 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

USB Information: ⓘ

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

Apple Card Reader 128,71 GB

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Transcend (disk1s2) /Volumes/Transcend : 128.37 GB (75.10 GB free)

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Gatekeeper: ⓘ

Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: ⓘ

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmci (90.6.3 - 2014-09-05) [Support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmioplug.14.1.3 (14.1.3 - 2014-09-05) [Support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmnet (0210.30.67 - 2014-09-05) [Support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (0210.30.67 - 2014-09-05) [Support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vsockets (90.6.0 - 2014-09-05) [Support]

System Launch Agents: ⓘ

[not loaded] 7 Apple tasks

[loaded] 162 Apple tasks

[running] 67 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[not loaded] 44 Apple tasks

[loaded] 157 Apple tasks

[running] 86 Apple tasks

Launch Agents: ⓘ

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-03-03) [Support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist (2016-02-20) [Support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist (2016-02-20) [Support]

Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-01-29) [Support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (2016-03-03) [Support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helpertool.plist (2016-02-21) [Support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (2016-01-09) [Support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.Helper.plist (2016-02-01) [Support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist (2016-02-20) [Support]

[loaded] com.transcend.TSRecoverHandlerHelp.plist (2016-02-20) [Support]

[running] com.transcend.TSSleepHandlerHelp.plist (2016-02-20) [Support]

[loaded] com.transcend.TSTRIMHandlerHelp.plist (2016-02-20) [Support]

User Login Items: ⓘ

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

Other Apps: ⓘ

[running] com.etresoft.EtreCheck.149472

[running] com.getdropbox.dropbox.96352

[loaded] 403 Apple tasks

[running] 166 Apple tasks

Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

FlashPlayer-10.6: 20.0.0.306 - SDK 10.6 (2016-02-25) [Support]

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-02-19)

Flash Player: 20.0.0.306 - SDK 10.6 (2016-02-25) [Support]

Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-02-19)

o1dbrowserplugin: 5.41.3.0 - SDK 10.8 (2016-02-22) [Support]

googletalkbrowserplugin: 5.41.3.0 - SDK 10.8 (2015-12-11) [Support]

MeetingJoinPlugin: Unknown - SDK 10.2 (2016-03-02) [Support]

User internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: 1.0.105 (2013-04-26) [Support]

Safari Extensions: ⓘ

1Password (2016-02-28)

Evernote Web Clipper (2016-02-21)

3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ

Flash Player (2016-01-29) [Support]

Time Machine: ⓘ

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: YES

Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 250.14 GB Disk used: 120.25 GB

Destinations:

3TB WDC [Local]

Total size: 3.00 TB

Total number of backups: 6

Oldest backup: 20/02/16 20:02

Last backup: 03/03/16 18:42

Size of backup disk: Excellent

Backup size 3.00 TB > (Disk size 250.14 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ

16% kernel_task

15% opendirectoryd

5% automountd

5% WindowServer

2% od_user_homes(2)

Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ

423 MB kernel_task

356 MB mdworker(11)

180 MB Dropbox

74 MB Spotlight

70 MB mds_stores

Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ

106 MB Free RAM

4.15 GB Used RAM (713 MB Cached)

0 B Swap Used

Diagnostics Information: ⓘ

Mar 5, 2016, 02:48:41 PM Self test - passed

Mar 3, 2016, 04:51:14 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.ICPPhotoStreamLibraryService_2016-03- 03-165114_[redacted].crash

/System/Library/CoreServices/cloudphotosd.app/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.IC PPhotoStreamLibraryService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.ICPPhotoStreamLibrarySer vice

Mar 3, 2016, 04:51:11 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/loginwindow_2016-03-03-165111_[redacted].crash

/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow

Mar 3, 2016, 03:39:06 PM ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2016-03-03-153906_[redacted].crash

com.apple.finder - /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

Did you reset the SMC?

yup.. SMC, PRAM... no luck.. 😟

Hello Fabiodik,

You ou should probably start your own thread instead of piggy-backing onto someone else's thread. That is a good way to get your problem ignored by most people.

I can tell you that the killed processes is not something that will ever go away. When you restart, you just reset them. On a 4GB machine, you will always have them. But since you have an SSD, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Maybe use Activity Monitor to see which apps are using the most energy. And post the results in a new thread.

Hi Etresoft... thanks for the hint. Will do like that... Sorry, newbie here.. normally I don't have problems... 🙂

Absolutely Mike Sombrio,

I followed the link and the advice of jcschell :

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/constantly-high-cpu-usage-soagent-callservic esd.1894835/#post-22536032

#25

I was also experiencing same issues as others: high CPU, high fan speed ...
All issues stopped when I turned off contact syncing to gmail.
Permanent Fix for me was to switch to BusyContacts . More power, less fan noise!

The app is expensive ($50) but so far it is worth because yes all the issues that I encountered since years are gone.

Plus this is really THE missing app of Apple. It seems quite insane that Mac user couldn't –since ages– manage their contacts. The publisher of BusyContacts seems reactive my questions about import/export (a need to be improved) were answered very nicely.

The interview here http://macsparky.com/blog/2015/2/busycontacts-ships-and-interview explain their solution : make a powerful replacement for OS X Contacts. I wish that made it 10 or 20 years ago. The shame is really Apple leaving people struggle with their contacts managements. Mind you it's the same story with the photo management : a joke to be polite.