UserEventAGent hogging cpu and memory

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UserEventAGent hogging cpu and memory

So far this high Mac OS Sierra is a disaster. MacBook Pro pretty much unusable as according to task manager UserEventAgent is using all the cup and memory. Computer was fine before upgrading. When I close it in task manager it just comes up again, any thoughts or fixes out there. I booted into recovery and did first aid on HD but didn’t do anything

Posted on Dec 7, 2017 12:02 PM

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Kappy

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Dec 7, 2017 12:06 PM in response to Nathan Gogol

Use Activity Monitor to kill the UserEventAgent process that is hogging the CPU. Or while observing the process in AM quit each running application watching to see which is using UserEventAgent. That app is your culprit so stop using it. Most likely it will be a third-party program - possibly an audio utility.

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