Anyone having the issue with CarboniteDaemon that's killing battery life on MacBooks?

[aevelasquez]

I'm not sure why this is or if it is an issue with ML, but there are alot of folks who are reporting far less battery life than what was estimated.

Some of the users on Apple Discussion boards found that, by opening Activity Monitor, CarboniteDaemon (which I'm not exactly sure what it does) is overworking their CPU to 80-90 percent (or something of the like) and it is killing their battery. Can anyone here confirm this/is anyone here having this issue?

Hope I was able to help inform a few of you who didn't know why you might be getting far less battery life than anticipated!

 

[GGJstudios]

I'm not sure why this is or if it is an issue with ML, but there are alot of folks who are reporting far less battery life than what was estimated.

Some of the users on Apple Discussion boards found that, by opening Activity Monitor, CarboniteDaemon (which I'm not exactly sure what it does) is overworking their CPU to 80-90 percent (or something of the like) and it is killing their battery. Can anyone here confirm this/is anyone here having this issue?

Hope I was able to help inform a few of you who didn't know why you might be getting far less battery life than anticipated!

This may be helpful: Mac OS X Lion heats up my MacBook extremely

For those of you experiencing this high CPU usage, high temperatures or fan speeds, and you are using Carbonite, you may want to try this:

It turns out that under Lion it seems, Carbonite (particularly the process CarboniteDaemon) seems to struggle and force very high CPU usage rates when looking for files to backup that include running programs. By configuring Carbonite to NOT look for files to backup in your "Applications" folder for example, at least for me, I saw dramatically lower CPU rates. You can add folders to be ignored for backup via the "Backup" tab in the Carbonite preferences panel.

Give it a try if you are in this scenario.

 

[aevelasquez]

This may be helpful: Mac OS X Lion heats up my MacBook extremely

Thanks so much man, you're a life saver

 

[bobmonica]

Tried that solution but still having the issue

Any other suggestions?

 

[simonsi]

Any other suggestions?

Look in your activity monitor to see what is using cpu.