The "deleted" process eats up too much CPU resource..

[saywhat13]

2023-02-18 UPDATE!!

Managed to figure it out!! It's Cleanmymac X triggering 'deleted' in the background all the time! This is automatically started and by default!!

How I found this is that deleted is actively running when a CMM cleanup/maintenance task is being executed. So I suspect CMM is doing maintenance in the background excessively. It proved my guess later on.

Steps to fix:

1. go to preference
2. go to protection
3. disable all the checked options.
4. viola!

Actually, I think this wont do harm to the system speed with a newer CPU..But it's dragging the system slow for old models.

HTH.

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Greetings everyone!

Recently I dug out an MBP 2010 13''..After managing to install Catalina using Dosdude's legacy patch, I found that the "deleted" process is running all the time...Its CPU usage varies from 10~50%, and with a horrible CPU usage time..

I looked up some info saying that iStats might be the cause but I don't have it installed here.

I have some impression of this process that it also exists on my MBP 14'' 2021 but its activity is more like a burst execution instead.

Below shows a very radical scene that deleted takes up 59.4% CPU.. Does anybody have some ideas to mitigate this? Appreciate it!!

 

[MacCheetah3]

What is the 'deleted' daemon in macOS?

Since installing macOS 10.12 I noticed a flood of messages from deleted in the logs. I haven't been able to find any information about this daemon. Could anyone enlighten me what this does?

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[saywhat13]

What is the 'deleted' daemon in macOS?

Since installing macOS 10.12 I noticed a flood of messages from deleted in the logs. I haven't been able to find any information about this daemon. Could anyone enlighten me what this does?

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Thx for the reply! This issue is too weird... Possibly a system bug.

 

[bogdanw]

It might be caused by low disk space.
Free up storage space on your Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206996

 

[saywhat13]

It might be caused by low disk space.
Free up storage space on your Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206996

Thx for the reply. I got a brand new SSD installed

 

[bogdanw]

You could try Onyx - Maintenance https://titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html
Maybe some system caches were not properly cleared after the install.

 

[saywhat13]

You could try Onyx - Maintenance https://titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html
Maybe some system caches were not properly cleared after the install.

Appreciate it！！This sounds cool！ Will definitely give it a go👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

 

[BrianBaughn]

I had Catalina (dosdude1) on my 2008 unibody MacBook for a short while and don't remember seeing this issue…but it was a very short while as I upgraded to Monterey and then Ventura via the Opencore Legacy Patcher.

 

[saywhat13]

I had Catalina (dosdude1) on my 2008 unibody MacBook for a short while and don't remember seeing this issue…but it was a very short while as I upgraded to Monterey and then Ventura via the Opencore Legacy Patcher.

Omg u're frontier soldier！I remember there're still some gpu driver issues with the OpenCore back when I was finding a way to install newer OS on this antique baby. Is it running okay？ Frankly speaking I've been noticing some obvious lag on Catalina which didn't exist on El Capitan I previously setup few yr ago. P8600 has possibly finished its historical mission.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Omg u're frontier soldier！I remember there're still some gpu driver issues with the OpenCore back when I was finding a way to install newer OS on this antique baby. Is it running okay？ Frankly speaking I've been noticing some obvious lag on Catalina which didn't exist on El Capitan I previously setup few yr ago. P8600 has possibly finished its historical mission.

Yeah it doesn't run as "snappy" as the old days…if you could ever call that machine "snappy". Some things just don't work…like Maps and Find My. Google Maps works in Chrome. I'm still getting a lot of use out of it, though.

 

[saywhat13]

Yeah it doesn't run as "snappy" as the old days…if you could ever call that machine "snappy". Some things just don't work…like Maps and Find My. Google Maps works in Chrome. I'm still getting a lot of use out of it, though.

My MC374 is running smoother and smoother on Catalina now..I reset the SMC and NVRAM, and reenabled amfi..Thing got better a bit now. Now I bother turning on my MBP14'' now....

I dug out this old machine at the beginning of the year. I purchased a pair of 8GB ram and a 512GB SSD for it. It works! I can only say legend never dies!

Intel ecosystem is a lot opener than apple silicon. Anticipating 10 yrs from now, I have no hope for another OpenCore or legacy patcher arises...Sigh