What is 'System Events'. CPU hog!

[jecapaga]

Should I be alarmed? MBP running a bit sluggish and in Activity monitor I notice that every 5 seconds or so 'System Events' is running between 5% to 60% of the CPU. What can I do to fix this?

 

[dfsaund]

just force quit it.

I've force-quitted this process a couple times with no obvious impact to normal operations. If you don't regularly view the event log, then you won't really care.
It seems that is process goes into a death spiral when rebooting after a kernel crash (gray screen of death).


Once killed, everything was good again.

 

[rdowns]

On behalf of the OP, thanks for the answer...13 months late.

 

[yellow]

better late than never, grumpy-bear. 🙂

And no, that % CPU usage is not normal.

 

[rdowns]

better late than never, grumpy-bear. 🙂

I said thank you.

 

[yellow]

I said thank you.

Touché!