You could look into the Activity Monitor utility to see what may be active
and using your system resources; perhaps you've some application that
won't shut off. Or something else sharing internet or indexing drives, etc.
Also you could use Etrecheck utility to see a profile of your Mac and post
it in your thread then others here could look into the report for ideas...
This was developed by a fellow ASC participant who has allowed us to
troubleshoot and see how our Macs are working.
{When you have an active Mac that should be sleeping, there could be
any number of things going on. You may have to power it off, and then
restart it. Maybe perform the checklist of SMC reset; w/o the final reset.}
• How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support
Using Etrecheck - apple user tips:
discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6172
See how it works, what it does, and how to post a report to this discussion:
About Etrecheck:
https://etrecheck.com/index
About that SMC (System Management Controller.) A reset of power management
unit; that reset may or may not resolve the problem. Read & follow steps before
actually resetting the SMC. The other steps done first, may resolve the issue.
In any event...
Good luck & happy trails! 🙂
