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santoru / filewatcher

A simple auditing utility for macOS
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Ramps up MacPro fans and energy impact, and pegs %CPU at 100% #12

Open newkton1 opened 6 years ago

newkton1 commented 6 years ago

First, thanks for this app.

I've been testing filewatcher on an 8-core MacPro running Mojave 10.14. Although it does what you say, it causes the fans to ramp-up from inaudible to very audible and the Energy Impact index shown in Activity Monitor rises to 99 which is more than the impact of running Office applications! The %CPU is also pegged at 100% compared to about 38% when working on a Word document. I can't imagine the code is very heavy so do you have any idea why filewatcher is being so demanding of CPU time and energy? Could the code be cleaned-up or might there be a problem with Mojave?

meliot commented 6 years ago

Hi, this is strange. I do not have a Mac with Mojave right now, I will be able to check it in few days and look further to this :)