sharing process taking loads of cpu on startup

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sharing process taking loads of cpu on startup

I am using 15 inch MACBook Pro running on MACOS 10.10.5

On booting the MAC, fans start running at max speed. Checking the CPU temperature it shows it at around 100 degree celsius. Checking the activity monitor as to what is executing i find that sharingd process takes a lot of cpu, it goes upwards of 260 odd percentage during this period. I have disabled file sharing(based on the assumption that sharingd deals with sharing). However the problem did not resolve. I also repaired the disk permissions, reset SMC but to no avail.

Can someone tell me what to do for this issue, is the fan issue related to sharingd or something else.

Thanks,

-Manan

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on May 29, 2017 9:12 PM

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MananJ Author

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May 30, 2017 8:25 PM in response to MananJ

The issue is resolved, i did the following

Disabled Airdrop using the command defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES
Disabled Remote Disk using the command sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool false

I did the above to make sure sharingd had nothing much to do, however it still did not resolve the issue. Then i logged out of my iCloud account and things went normal.

I have not reenabled Airdrop, Remote Disk nor logged in to my iCloud Account as of now, will update on the status once i get some more time to investigate. However for the time being the issue is resolved by logging out of the iCloud account.

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kaz-k

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May 30, 2017 2:12 AM in response to MananJ

As you know, Sharingd is used by the Finder to enable AirDrop file sharing, connecting to shared computers, and accessing remote discs from other computers.

Are there any Macs, iPads and the like equipments around your MacBook Pro?

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MananJ Author

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May 30, 2017 2:18 AM in response to kaz-k

Yes i have an iPhone which generally shares the same Wifi as the MAC. But this has been the case since long, however this fan issue started lately. How do i verify if iPhone is indeed the culprit.

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