syspolicyd high cpu usage

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cssgareth OP

Created Aug ’19

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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?

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Answer 1

vinsoft OP

Jul ’20

The same problem, now, with the version 10.15.6 (19G73)
??!!!!

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SNicker317 OP

Aug ’20

10.15.6, Same problem, seems we have just traded one issue for another. Hope they get this resolved quickly as my laptop runs hot as it is before this issue.

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ricardofellini OP

Oct ’20

the same here MCP 15 2019

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Matsuri OP

Nov ’20

Same PROBLEM when I run xcode on test iphone CPU uses more than 300+% CPU NOT FIXES, Battery is gets lower fast. temp is high, fans are loud.

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KirTer OP

Nov ’20

Same problem!
Ver: 11.0.1 (20B29)

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gbr-422777 OP

Feb ’21

I have the same problem with big sur Ver: 11.2.2

Anyone solved this?

MacBook Pro mid 2015

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WilliamTech OP

May ’21

Same problem!!! Ver: 11.4 Big Sur

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tifdotcom OP

May ’21

Same 11.2.3 (20D91) on MacBook Pro 2019 - no fix for this yet?

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yauhenifromvilnius OP

Jun ’21

Same issue, macOS big sur 11.4, mbp 15", 2018

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RobAPD OP

Jun ’21

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

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Kal992 OP

Jul ’21

Same PROBLEM 400% cpu usage!

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Thomas Tempelmann OP

Sep ’21

nevermind

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Answer 13

KingJulian OP

Oct ’21

You could check the lsof (list open files) command, like sudo lsof -c syspolicyd to see what files are touched by it.

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thejewel15 OP

Apr ’22

Same here on Monterey 12.3.1

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prashant_sah OP

Nov ’22

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.

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