Help! Abnormal high CPU usage related to Launchd and SystemGUIServer

[eeerik]

Hi everyone, hope someone can help me with this!

Yesterday my Macbook (2ghz intel, 1gb ram) started to behave strangily, with nothing running CPU usage is at ~30% and temperature rises really quickly to around 70-80 degrees celsius. In activity monitor I have seen that it is a process called SystemGUIServer that is responsible for the CPU usage and when you kill its parent process, launchd, it all functions as normal with 0% CPU at idle. However, killing launchd seems to reduce funtionality on many other levels so its a solution...

Anyone that has a clue what is wrong and how to fix it?

Thankful for all assistance I can get!

(The problem seems similar to this one but the solution posted there did not help.)

/Erik

 

[Eidorian]

You really don't want to kill launchd. Also can you post a screenshot of said high CPU usage? Did you try starting your Mac?

 

[eeerik]

Thanks for your reply. Rebooting doesn't help and I'll see if I can get a screenshot up.

I also found this which seems to be a related problem and I'm just curious how you can find out if processes are restarted in the way described?

 

[Eidorian]

Check your logs before you go off and start killing processes and other wild goose chases.

 

[eeerik]

Well, its a goosechase since I don't know where to look or what to look for...

What should i look for in the logs?

After reboot another process taking up much cpu usage was visible in activity monitor, blued.

Screenshot

 

[sidewinder]

The "blued" process is for Bluetooth. Turn off Bluetooth and see what happens.

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