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Macbook air fan won't stop, running slower, battery dying faster.

My macbook air fan won't stop, seems to be running slower and the battery is dying faster. I did just get back from vacation with my macbook and it was a slightly humid climate but I kept it in my bag most of the time. I checked CPU usage and closed programs with the most usage, it says I'm only using about 15% but my system is using 65% so I'm not sure how to get that to stop. I also tried resetting SMC which didn't seem to help. Fan is still on, computer however does seem to be slightly faster after resetting SMC. Battery still dying pretty quick. Computer is about 6-7 years old. I also have plenty of storage space on my computer so I don't think that is an issue. Any other ideas? Thank you

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5), null

Posted on Mar 1, 2018 2:33 AM

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Mar 1, 2018 5:17 AM in response to laurby92

Please run EtreCheck and post the report here.


https://etrecheck.com


Click “Free Download” button, open Downloads folder, click on it to open, and then select ”Open”.

Click on the bouncing EtreCheck icon in the Dock.

“Choose a problem” from the popup menu box, and then “Start EtreCheck” in the dialog.


Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar, select “Copy to Clipboard” .

Paste it into the reply.

Mar 1, 2018 4:14 PM in response to dominic23

EtreCheck version: 4.1 (4A162)

Report generated: 2018-03-01 18:05:57

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime: 26:53

Performance: Poor


Problem: Other problem

Description:

computer is too slow and fan won’t stop


Major Issues:

Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention.


No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found.

Poor performance - EtreCheck report took over 10 minutes to run. This is very unusual.


Minor Issues: None


Hardware Information:

MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014)

MacBook Air Model: MacBookAir6,1

1 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-4260U) CPU: 2-core

4 RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1600 ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

2 GB DDR3 1600 ok

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 322


Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: 1536 MB

Color LCD 1366 x 768


Drives:

disk0 - APPLE SSD TS0256F 251.00 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

Internal PCI 5.0 GT/s x2 Serial ATA

disk0s1 - EFI [EFI] 210 MB

disk0s2 - Macintosh HD [Core Storage Container] 250.14 GB

disk1 - Macintosh HD (Journaled HFS+) 249.78 GB

disk0s3 - Recovery HD [Recovery] 650 MB


Mounted Volumes:

disk1 - Macintosh HD 249.78 GB (117.10 GB free)

Journaled HFS+

Mount point: /

Encrypted


Network:

Interface en0: Wi-Fi

802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

One IPv4 address

Interface en2: Bluetooth PAN

Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge


System Software:

OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31)

Time since boot: About a day

System Load: 95.89 (1 min ago) 57.60 (5 min ago) 40.19 (15 min ago)


Security:

SystemStatus
GatekeeperMac App Store and identified developers
System Integrity ProtectionEnabled


System Launch Agents:

[Not Loaded] 6 Apple tasks
[Loaded] 168 Apple tasks
[Running] 64 Apple tasks


System Launch Daemons:

[Not Loaded] 46 Apple tasks
[Loaded] 171 Apple tasks
[Running] 74 Apple tasks
[Other] One Apple task


Launch Daemons:

[Loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-02-01)


User Launch Agents:

[Loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-09-27)
[Loaded] com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (Dropbox, Inc. - installed 2017-08-10)


User Login Items:

iTunesHelper Application (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-24)

(/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Backup and Sync from Google Application (Google, Inc.

(/Applications/Backup and Sync.app)

Dropbox Application (Dropbox, Inc.

(/Applications/Dropbox.app)

Backup and Sync from Google Application (Google, Inc.

(/Applications/Backup and Sync.app)


Internet Plug-ins:

Silverlight: 5.1.50901.0 (installed 2017-02-14)

FlashPlayer-10.6: 28.0.0.161 (installed 2018-02-06)

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2016-09-27)

Flash Player: 28.0.0.161 (installed 2018-02-06)

Default Browser: 601 (installed 2016-09-27)


User Internet Plug-ins:

AddLive_v3: AddLive_v3 3.0.6.3 (installed 2016-08-23)


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player (installed 2018-02-01)


Time Machine:

Time Machine Not Configured!


Top Processes by CPU:

Process (count)Source% of CPU
kernel_taskApple13
FinderApple12
com.apple.WebKit.WebContent (14)Apple2
clouddApple1
WindowServerApple1


Top Processes by Memory:

Process (count)SourceRAM usage
com.apple.WebKit.WebContent (14)Apple772 MB
kernel_taskApple507 MB
mdworker (9)Apple100 MB
MailApple45 MB
SafariApple41 MB


Top Processes by Energy Use:

Process (count)SourceEnergy usage (0-100)
com.apple.WebKit.WebContent (14)Apple6
WindowServerApple3
coreaudiodApple1
clouddApple1
com.apple.WebKit.NetworkingApple1


Virtual Memory Information:

Available RAM430 MB
Free RAM18 MB
Used RAM3.58 GB
Cached files412 MB
Swap Used1.36 GB


End of report

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