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?
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)
Same issue here on 12.6.8
Richard Stallman has always been right.
Found the process. It's Acrobat reader. Simply quit and you'll no longer have the syspolicyd or kernel task using 200% CPU or more .