Hi all,
For the last couple of betas of Catalina I've noticed that the process "syspolicyd" chews through CPU usage without ever dropping. The process seems to start up by itself and then consume a huge amount of CPU (often 98%) causing my Macbook Pro to spin up fans to try and cool it.
It doesn't seem to stop by itself so I've resorted to killing the process manually but I wondered if there's a known issue or fix for this?
Same problem!!! Ver: 11.4 Big Sur
Same 11.2.3 (20D91) on MacBook Pro 2019 - no fix for this yet?
Same issue, macOS big sur 11.4, mbp 15", 2018
Same here. Just upgraded to Big Sur 11.4. mbp 15", 2018. Ok b4 upgrade. Chronically high CPU from syspolicyd ever since.
Afraid my CPU might melt down
Same PROBLEM 400% cpu usage!
nevermind
You could check the lsof (list open files) command, like sudo lsof -c syspolicyd to see what files are touched by it.
Apple was once fined for slowing down older phones. Now I believe they are messing up with macs as well. My system (MBP 2017) has random processes up and running consuming too much cpu and leading to fans running on full rpm. I thought this would all disappear after completely formatting the system. But, Naah!! The issue still exists.
The same here: macOS 12.6.5 (21G531)
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Add a CommentSame here on Monterey 12.3.1
I once believed owning a mac provides you a smooth as butter experience since there are no unknown random processes using much of your cpu as in windows system. But I was so wrong. These random processes like syspolicyd, diagnosticd are consuming too much CPU. I thought that I have installed many unwanted softwares so I have now formatted the system expecting to have a nice experience with my macbook but the problem still exists.
Richard Stallman has always been right.