Hi everyone, a few days ago I recently acquired a mid 2014 Macbook Pro 15-inch retina. I was just taking a look at the activity monitor. I was just wondering what the process 'Bird' actually does. I want to get rid of any activities on my monitor that are not needed.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Process 'Bird' in Activity Monitor
- Thread starter VisionaryZS
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Screenshot of activity monitor would help.
Only thing I can think of would be Angry Birds ?
Never heard of a process called Bird.
Only thing I can think of would be Angry Birds ?
Never heard of a process called Bird.
Well obviously it's Microsoft Word.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-bird-is-the-word/id533114929?i=533115168
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-bird-is-the-word/id533114929?i=533115168
Ahh, okay, thanks. I don't have any use for the cloud right now, but I may in the future. I gave permission to install a bunch of software in the past few days, and I hope that they were all reputable.
Bird uses huge amounts of disk
I have the same problem with bird, although CPU and memory usage is low, in 24 hours it has written 442Gb and read 200gb from my disk. I have no idea what it is doing, but it means my disk is constantly whirring away. I only started looking because my other programs are starting to slow down and take a long time to load.
I haven't even activated iCloud yet. So what is this program doing and can i stop it if it is slowing down my machine?
I have the same problem with bird, although CPU and memory usage is low, in 24 hours it has written 442Gb and read 200gb from my disk. I have no idea what it is doing, but it means my disk is constantly whirring away. I only started looking because my other programs are starting to slow down and take a long time to load.
I haven't even activated iCloud yet. So what is this program doing and can i stop it if it is slowing down my machine?
I noticed "bird" taking a LOT of system resources and CPU time. That's how I got to this thread. As it sits right now, bird is consuming 80-90% CPU (out of 400% for my hyperthreaded i5 MacBook Air). My CPU is running 90-95°C probably because of it.
There's a man page for bird (type man bird in console, haha).
NAME
bird -- Documents in the Cloud
SYNOPSIS
bird
DESCRIPTION
bird is one of the system daemons backing the Documents in the Cloud feature.
There are no configuration options to bird, and users should not run bird manually.
NAME
bird -- Documents in the Cloud
SYNOPSIS
bird
DESCRIPTION
bird is one of the system daemons backing the Documents in the Cloud feature.
There are no configuration options to bird, and users should not run bird manually.
It is most likely based on iCloud. When I clicked on the Battery Status icon in the menu bar, it said that iCloud was using significant energy. When I opened Activity Monitor, Bird had been running for almost 5 hours, was using 7 threads, and had used 9 GB of RAM, and with no other resource intensive application or processes being ran at a time, I can conclude that iCloud is "bird".
Yes this is an iCloud process, which seems in particular to manage the iCloud Drive file sync process. Turn iCloud Drive off and it will disappear. I had to do this to maximise battery life on my 13" 2015 MBP.
[doublepost=1526653646][/doublepost]For those who might see the helpful mention of how to actually answer this question authoritatively ("(type man bird in console,"), I thought I'd add that this literally means open Applications>Utilities>Terminal and type 'man bird'. Or at least it was 'Terminal' for me. Perhaps 'console' is the familiar way for those in the know, to refer to the command line utility that the Terminal interface provides, so I'm not saying it's wrong. But there is an application called Console, which, as a newbie, I tried first.
30+ MB isn't minuscule. Things like this add up. How many processes using this kind of "minuscule" memory amount are we supposed to tolerate? Bird is a backend service. It doesn't even have a GUI. What justifies so much memory usage? How about the 30-60MB of memory used by things like "AdGuard Safari Icon", in Safari's new and broken plugin system?
It continues to irritate me how conditioned people are to "the way things are". Entire operating systems, with considerable functionality, used to live in the space of 30MB...
It adds up.