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How is 10.15.5 on 2020 Air?

I have just gone through reviewing all my apps that had been copied over from my old computer. (Some apps needed to be updated in order to work on my new computer, and some do not have updates yet...due to the 32 bit programs not working on the new computer.)

Everything seems to be working well except for bluestacks. I liked running the alliance bank for a ios game I play on my Mac, but that game won’t load on bluestacks for some reason. Trying to get it to run was the only thing that caused my fans to spin on my computer so far.

I have not tried zoom yet on the new computer, but will try it the next time church council meets or we have our mission and direction meeting.
 
CheesePuff said:
Now that Meet supports Safari, try using that browser next time (with Chrome fully quit) and see if there is a difference (my guess is there will be a big difference)
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Ah, I just assumed Meet was still just for Chrome. I'll try it on Safari next time.

Strange, I'm getting heat and fan responses all over the map. Yesterday I got a lot of spikes, today I was streaming video and running loads of tabs with no fans. 4k video, totally silent.

Only thing I can think of is, I found out my icloud synch for Photos was off, and downloaded around 7,000 pictures on Friday. Could that have had an effect a few days later?
 
scooterspud said:
Ah, I just assumed Meet was still just for Chrome. I'll try it on Safari next time.

Strange, I'm getting heat and fan responses all over the map. Yesterday I got a lot of spikes, today I was streaming video and running loads of tabs with no fans. 4k video, totally silent.

Only thing I can think of is, I found out my icloud synch for Photos was off, and downloaded around 7,000 pictures on Friday. Could that have had an effect a few days later?
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Check Activity Monitor and sort by % CPU column and see what processes (if any) are using a lot of CPU, I believe its called photosanalysisd that would handle all of the processing after downloading (but should not take days, usually only hours)
 
CheesePuff said:
Check Activity Monitor and sort by % CPU column and see what processes (if any) are using a lot of CPU, I believe its called photosanalysisd that would handle all of the processing after downloading (but should not take days, usually only hours)
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Wow, photosanalysisd is bouncing between 23 and 65% CPU - and this is 4 days after I did the download! Had no idea it would effect performance for so long. Wonder how long this takes to finish processing?
 
scooterspud said:
Wow, photosanalysisd is bouncing between 23 and 65% CPU - and this is 4 days after I did the download! Had no idea it would effect performance for so long. Wonder how long this takes to finish processing?
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Depends on how many photos you have. :D

Leave the system turned on and the lid up even when not using it for the next couple days until you see stuff settle down.
 
scooterspud said:
Wow, photosanalysisd is bouncing between 23 and 65% CPU - and this is 4 days after I did the download! Had no idea it would effect performance for so long. Wonder how long this takes to finish processing?
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I have 8,800 in iCloud and they all downloaded and were analyzed well within 48 hours on a 2015 MBP 15" (2.5 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB Flash on Catalina.. did a clean install a couple months back)
 
deeddawg said:
Depends on how many photos you have. :D

Leave the system turned on and the lid up even when not using it for the next couple days until you see stuff settle down.
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When I went back, photosanalysisd was at 0% for a few hours. Now, it's back up to as high as 80%!
 
no issues on my 2018 MBA, although have noticed battery is dropping percentage. Mine is always pulled in showing 100% before, so with it dropping will this make the cycle count rise?
 
adonis3k said:
no issues on my 2018 MBA, although have noticed battery is dropping percentage. Mine is always pulled in showing 100% before, so with it dropping will this make the cycle count rise?
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Could this be part of the Battery Health thing?

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Apple today released macOS Catalina 10.15.5, the fifth update to the macOS Catalina operating system that was released in October 2019. macOS...
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Jack Neill said:
.5 has been great so far for my 3 Cat Macs. 2020 i5/8/512 seems fine.
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I like the term Cat Mac. I’m on Island Mac.
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Loog said:
some voodoo going on with mine, battery was 98% and is now showing 101%. So far other than this I've not noticed anything major, looking forward to Monday for my next bout of MS Teams to see if there has been some improvements here. Fingers crossed!
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I used the app that you’re using in 2016 on my Touch Bar MBP. I found Coconut Battery to be more reliable.
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scooterspud said:
Wow, photosanalysisd is bouncing between 23 and 65% CPU - and this is 4 days after I did the download! Had no idea it would effect performance for so long. Wonder how long this takes to finish processing?
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That daemon is analysing photos for faces and objects and such. It will take time. Once that’s done, you will have a much cooler computer. I recommend leaving it on, connected to power so that it gets its job done faster.
 
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Quick update to my original post stating everything was fine upon the initial upgrade on a 2018 i5 MBA. It was fine until the latest small update. Now I have been experiencing kernel panic crashes in two circumstances. One when the machine is asleep and I've tried disabling power nap which has slightly mitigated this but it still sometimes occurs. The second is while using Parallels. It seems completely random and intermittent so far. Sometimes it will lock up and shut down when starting parallels. Other times while under heavy load within Windows 10. Dual core i5 so heavy load isn't difficult to achieve but you get the idea.
 
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Update on my photoanalysisd issue. After working with AppleCare, I got it to analyze all my photos, but it has still been running in the background anyways - even after letting leaving the laptop on for days. In addition, CalendarAgent is now also running like crazy, sometimes at 120% of CPU.

After a long AppleCare call, I got bumped way up and they relayed the issue to Engineering. Just heard back that Engineering says this is a known issue that should be addressed in a forthcoming OS update. I'm supposed to be contacted by AppleCare when the update that addresses the issue is released.
 
scooterspud said:
Update on my photoanalysisd issue. After working with AppleCare, I got it to analyze all my photos, but it has still been running in the background anyways - even after letting leaving the laptop on for days. In addition, CalendarAgent is now also running like crazy, sometimes at 120% of CPU.

After a long AppleCare call, I got bumped way up and they relayed the issue to Engineering. Just heard back that Engineering says this is a known issue that should be addressed in a forthcoming OS update. I'm supposed to be contacted by AppleCare when the update that addresses the issue is released.
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Yes I can confirm this happens sometimes when waking up the computer. If you open photo and calendar And close them it will stop Or usually does. This was going on for a while even before I believe 15.4. I noticed the same thing on my MacMini. Good to hear a fix is coming.
 
Last (hopefully) update on this. To fix the CalendarAgent issue, I went ahead and trashed my calendars and rebuilt new ones. CalendarAgent is now back to normal with no CPU usage - but guess what? Photoanalysisd is now acting properly too! Don't know why, but this seemed to fix both issues - photoanalysisd now pops on and spikes a bit when Photos is launched, then goes back to 0% - and stays that way the rest of the time. My MBA is finally performing the way I had hoped, with the fans rarely kicking in, and almost never at full blast.
scooterspud said:
Update on my photoanalysisd issue. After working with AppleCare, I got it to analyze all my photos, but it has still been running in the background anyways - even after letting leaving the laptop on for days. In addition, CalendarAgent is now also running like crazy, sometimes at 120% of CPU.

After a long AppleCare call, I got bumped way up and they relayed the issue to Engineering. Just heard back that Engineering says this is a known issue that should be addressed in a forthcoming OS update. I'm supposed to be contacted by AppleCare when the update that addresses the issue is released.
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thadoggfather said:
And any 10.15.6 folks can chime in on 2020 Air?
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I updated .6 Thursday, I have not noticed any difference. It fixed a few bugs for people using USB hubs, previously not recognizing them. It was a very long update, it might of done some firmware for this fix?

I am doing my Mac Mini now it shows 45 minutes.
 
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CheesePuff said:
There is a short thread in the macOS 10.15 forum that CPU temps are running much cooler on 10.15.6, a bit hard to believe though
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Can you link me to this?

Tried searching and looking in the Catalina sub forum, couldn't find
 
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