Mac os bird process

Что за «птица» залетела в Mac. Или история о «нехороших процессах» в OS X Yosemite

Всем здравствуйте! Сегодня хочу рассказать одну неприятную историю которая произошла с моим MacBook. А дело было так, одним зимним вечером я как всегда бродил по просторам интернета и вдруг заметил что мой Мак угрожающе загудел — кулеры начали работать на всю катушку и как следствие очень сильно стал нагреваться корпус.

Bird — что это за птица

Я сразу же залез в мониторинг системы и увидел что 98 % ресурсов ЦП пожирает некий Bird (с англ. птица) теперь задача стояла в том, что бы выяснить какая программа использует этот процесс и чем вызван такой расход ресурсов моего Мак. Но для начала я предположил, что возможно проблема решается принудительным завершением Bird, это помогло буквально на 2 минуты. Следующим шагом была перезагрузка компа — тоже тщетно.

Решение проблемы было найдено на одном из буржуйских сайтов, оказывается работа «птички» связана с iCloud Drive , чтобы в этом убедиться я зашёл в настройки > iCloud и убрал галочку с этого пункта затем еще раз перезагрузил макбук и вуаля — мониторинг системы показал 93 % свободных ресурсов.

Все здорово, если бы мне было абсолютно плевать на этот iCloud Drive, но я из числа тех кто очень быстро адаптируется ко всем новым фишкам Apple и в дальнейшем уже не может без них обходиться, а значит следующая проблема заключалась в том как теперь вновь активировать облачное хранилище но уже без всяких там «птиц». Признаться честно я так и не узнал в чем кроется причина, просто через пару часов опять поставил галочку на место и с той поры вроде бы все здорово :). Будем считать, что это плавающий отказ, а если кто-то разобрался в этом нюансе более детально то обязательно пишите в комментариях.

mds, mds_stores, mdworker — «гаденыши» Spotlight

Следующие процессы которые могут доставить неприятные хлопоты носят имя mds_stores, mdworker и mds (все они из одной шайки). На самом деле это очень даже благородные процессы которые отвечают за индексацию данных на Mac, то есть, как многие уже догадались, напрямую сотрудничают со Spotlight. Но вот иногда эта троица (либо раздельно) может неоправданно сильно нагружать комп оставляя жалкие крохи свободной оперативки и ресурсов процессора.

Лечение:
Раз эти процессы вызывает Spotlight то его и нужно усмирять (не бойтесь, это не надолго 🙂 я прекрасно понимаю как здорово он облегчает жизнь многим «яблочникам»). Для этого заходим в терминал и вводим такую команду

Spotlight теперь полностью отключен, заходим в мониторинг и радуемся.

Теперь включим поиск всего и вся обратно:

После этих манипуляций вышеописанные процессы должны усмирить свой аппетит, а если нет то переходим ко второму способу.

Для этого предлагаю полностью переиндексировать все ваши данные (имейте ввиду процедура весьма длительная, поэтому советую ее запускать после того как вы оставили Мак в покое), в терминале запускаем команду

И в завершении один маленький совет: Чтобы свести к минимуму потребление ресурсов Mac этими процессами, будет здорово добавить папки с постоянно меняющимся содержимым (загрузки, Dropbox и т.д.) в конфиденциальные, то есть исключить их из индексации. Для этого идем в настройки > Spotlight > вкладка конфиденциальность и плюсиком добавляем папки.

P.S. Надеюсь эта статейка поможет кому-нибудь оперативно вернуть свой «яблык» в прежнее рабочее русло, а не лазить несколько часов по зарубежным сайтам в поисках решения. Также советую почитать очень полезную статью о других возможных проблемах Мак.

А какие процессы Mac доставляли хлопоты вам ? А также о других настигнувших проблемах и способах их решения обязательно пишите в комментарии, думаю всем будет интересно узнать.

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Question: Q: «bird» process is taking over

I installed Yosemite and configured iCloud Drive. I copied a lot of files yesterday. Today the fan is on constantly. I see a process in Activity Monitor called «bird» that is constantly near 100% CPU. Any ideas what is going on?

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 6:44 AM

Here’s what I did. It seemed to work well.

1. I unchecked iCloud Drive in System Preferences
2. I restored the original files from another backup. They had been deleted and rearranged during my initial attempt to put them on iCloud Drive. I made sure they were in another folder so that when I did the following, the restored files wouldn’t get touched
3. I went to the iCloud Drive web interface and deleted all files
4. I checked iCloud Drive in System Preferences
5. A bunch of file showed up in iCloud Drive in Finder – The fan started blowing. I didn’t look at Activity Monitor but I’ll bet bird was using a lot of CPU
6. I deleted all of the files in the Finder (i.e., the iCloud Drive folder)
7. Now there were no files in iCloud Drive – either from the browser view or the Finder view. Back to where I started.
8. I copied about 2 GB of files to iCloud drive.
9. No fan noise. The transfer was relatively quick. I copied another 2 GB of files. Same result.

My conclusion: Do all file curating on the physical drive first. Once I’ve cleaned up and arranged the files, upload them in small batches. After 20 or 30 GBs have been up loaded, future file uploads and file management in the cloud should be fairly low impact.

Hope that helps someone else.

Posted on Oct 23, 2014 7:52 AM

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Just for other readers.

If you open terminal and enter:

brctl log —wait —shorten

You can see a log of iCloud Drive transactions being made.

It looks like the best, current way to view the syncing status of iCloud Drive. You’ll also be able to view when a transaction fails, which lines up with the error message nyeates1 posted, which may be triggering the bird process issue.

Dec 19, 2014 7:20 AM

The ‘bird’ process is indeed the back end process behind iCloud drive. Are all your files copied? If not, it will take some CPU and copy some files until they’re copied. Performance varies; I’ve seen it take quite a while to copy, say, 10 GB of files. How much did you move to iCloud drive?

Killing the process may not help; it will just start up again. You could try restarting, but you may just want to give it time.

Oct 22, 2014 6:39 PM

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I don’t know what is going on, but I would force quit the process in Activity Monitor.

Oct 18, 2014 6:46 AM

I force quit it and it popped back up. I saw another thread that suggested logging out of iCloud Drive and logging back in. I wasn’t sure how to «log out» other than to go to System Preferences and unclick iCloud Drive. When I did that, I got a warning that said it was still uploading files, etc. I unclicked it anyway and bird stopped showing up and my fan stopped.

I have a gut feeling about what happened. I copied files to iCloud Drive the way I normally would: click and drag from Folder X on my MBA to Folder X on iCloud Drive. My objective was to get files off of my MBA and into the cloud to conserve space on my MBA. The apparent operation was very quick. In some cases, when I clicked and dragged the file appeared to be deleted from my MBA drive.

I think Apple has programmed iCloud to look like it’s fast. But file transfer speeds are a factor of many things outside of Apple’s control. It gave me the illusion that all the files were transferred when they really weren’t (I had multiple gigabytes of files). I think what happened is that because I thought everything was done, I closed my laptop. When I opened it again the next morning, iCloud tried to continue the file transfer process. I saw no progress indicator at any time.

Apple provides very little (that I could find) instructions on use. The first time you set up a cloud account, the long pole in the tent is getting all the files over to the new account. After that, file-by-file transfers are fast. I should have remembered that. I will start again and leave plenty of time for the files to transfer. I’ll do it in small batches so that I am sure that the files made it before closing my laptop.

If anyone more knowledgable that I am can confirm or deny the above, I would appreciate it.

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Question: Q: cloudd and bird processes hogging the processor?

I have a fresh installation of Yosemite on a mid-2010 MBP. I’m seeing two processes, «cloudd» and «bird,» consistently running the proc at about %60 and %40 consistently, along with the expected heat, fan and battery consumption. My first thought was that this was tied to iCloud Drive indexing, but we’re deep into hour three at this point, which seems little excessive to index less than .5G in data.

Anyone else seeing this?

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 10:13 PM

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Had the same problem.

I ran «brctl log —wait —shorten» it showed there was one file stuck for upload to the cloud.

Disabling iCloud drive it gave me the waring about this, ignored the warning and CPU returned to normal levels.

When I enabled iCloud drive again after that, files got synced and CPU remained low.

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I’ve got this problem too. cloudd is killing process! Fresh version of Yosemite, macbook air mid 2011. I turned off icloud drive in icloud settings — processor load was normal.

Oct 17, 2014 10:50 PM

Having the same situation. I let it run and it went for almost 23 hours the first time before it finished. I have about 22 GB on iCloud Drive.

I made a change today in my network and my computers IP address needed to change from .99 to .103 and the cloudd and bird process started again.

I just cranked my fans and let it run the first time but if this is going to happen avery time a change is made it seems more like a bug.

Fortunately it is sending almost 0 data to iCloud Drive, just consuming processor power.

Oct 20, 2014 4:45 PM

I’m having this problem also.

This is in my console log

11/8/14 5:43:18.000 AM kernel[0]: process cloudd[277] thread 25714 caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 72%) over 180 seconds. thread lifetime cpu usage 90.137208 seconds, (87.951190 user, 2.186018 system) ledger info: balance: 90134434306 credit: 90134434306 debit: 0 limit: 90000000000 (50%) period: 180000000000 time since last refill (ns): 124711307902

11/8/14 5:43:22.333 AM spindump[408]: Saved cpu_resource.diag report for cloudd version . (. ) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cloudd_2014-11-08-054322_usernmae_cpu_resource. diag

Nov 8, 2014 6:48 AM

Having this issue too on a MBP mid 2009. ‘bird’ is taking up 80-90 % CPU all the time. It took 30 mins to get to a stable startup state. I couldnt do anything for 30 mins while the startup process caught up.

I think this computer is not meant to handle an OS with so much overhead and increased requirements.

Icloud might have bugs too.

Anyone know if there are ways to troubleshoot ICloud drive? Can we see what it is doing at any one time?

Dec 6, 2014 12:46 PM

I also posted a bug report to

https://bugreport.apple.com/(you have to be a registered developer, which is free)

It is under big report # 19168445 if anyone wants to reference it. I also linked to this and other forums mentioning bird problems.

Dec 6, 2014 1:53 PM

I have also submitted a bug report on this. Not only does the runaway bird process effectively make iCloud drive a non-option it also seriously degrades performance so I characterized it as a serious bug.

Dec 17, 2014 11:20 AM

Had the same problem.

I ran «brctl log —wait —shorten» it showed there was one file stuck for upload to the cloud.

Disabling iCloud drive it gave me the waring about this, ignored the warning and CPU returned to normal levels.

When I enabled iCloud drive again after that, files got synced and CPU remained low.

Jan 14, 2015 4:06 AM

Thanks Sorki, that fixed my problem too. It was clearly one file stuck for upload. cloudd and bird were both churning away. A little scary to accept that all iCloud files are deleted from local hard drive, but they were later restored automatically.

Jan 17, 2015 12:08 PM

Here’s how I solved the iCloud CPU hogging issue.

Like most I quickly found that the bird and cloudd processes lookup

1. Unplugged from network/internet.

2. Killed both cloudd and bird, (you can do this via command line by using TOP to find the process id and then KILL -9 or the Activity Monitor and force quit)

3. Undo any setting that forces your disk to securely delete file or securely empty trash. In my case I had this on by default and had recently trashed files from the iCloud folder. I’m not sure if this was the root cause but it’s something I did in the process of eliminating anything that could have restrictions on the iCloud files and folders.

4. Empty the trash. Make sure that non of the iCloud files were open or locked by other application/network/etc.

5. Restarted iCloud service. Thanks to Sorki, ran «brctl log —wait —shorten»

6. Wait for all files to sync. Gotta be patient. If it’s the first time you put large files or large quantity of files, you gotta give it time to sync.

7. Been running fine for days.

I have 3 computers that are all tied to iCloud. All are now working great. Only my iMac 2010 had the slowdown. Judging by the fact that only one had the issue I knew that it must be a local settings issue, a large file, or some sort of file system restriction.

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What Is the Bird Process in Activity Monitor?

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It’s another ordinary day, and you’re quietly working on your Mac to get things done. You get to your Activity Monitor. Suddenly you see a process called “bird” that is constantly near 100 percent CPU usage. You try to quit it, but it just manages to start up over and over again. What the heck is going on?

If you have this issue, know that you are not alone. Many other Mac users have asked: what is the bird process in Activity Monitor? Can the bird process actually be deleted?

What is the bird process running on my Mac?

The short answer is that the bird process Mac is the back end process behind iCloud and iCloud drive. It can sit there on your Mac computer at 100 percent CPU usage all the time, without appearing to accomplish anything.

You cannot delete it as well. It is deemed an essential part of macOS, whose content is proprietary. You can consider it a system daemon used with iCloud and iCloud drive, serving as a component of its backup function.

Pro Tip: Scan your Mac for performance issues, junk files, harmful apps, and security threats
that can cause system issues or slow performance.

If the daemon is consuming an ungodly amount of CPU time, then something might be causing the bird process to crash. You can use Activity Monitor to kill a specific process and force it to relaunch. This might not always work, though, given complaints from users who cannot seem to “kill” the bird Mac.

Bird Process Issues on Mac

According to some user reports, iCloud has started consuming 100% CPU, particularly after upgrading to macOS Catalina. Users have tried everything and have no idea where to go next with the troubleshooting. Some were even forced to downgrade back to Mojave because of the hassle caused by the bird process consuming too much CPU.

Based on the reports, at some seemingly random interval after booting the computer, the process will spike to 100% CPU usage and will remain at that point indefinitely unless it is stopped or killed. Users can use Activity Monitor to Force Quit the process and the process will end normally. It will respawn after some time, behaving normally. Then it will spike back up to 100% CPU after a period of time.

Aside from Bird, you might also notice the Cloudd process also consuming a lot of CPU. It is a process known as a daemon, which means it runs in the background performing system tasks. In the case of Cloudd, those tasks are related to CloudKit.

CloudKit is Apple’s framework for providing access to iCloud for apps that want to store data on iCloud Drive or sync data using iCloud. Cloudd runs whenever an application or process syncs or copies data to or from iCloud. macOS uses CloudKit when you, for example, use Desktop and Documents in iCloud or manually move files between your Mac and iCloud Drive.

Mostly, once your Mac has synced with iCloud, it will only be moving a handful of files or small amounts of data and so Cloudd shouldn’t run for long.

Why Is Bird Process Consuming Too Much CPU?

One of the reason why your bird process CPU usage is too high is because of an outdated iCloud drive settings. Some users also noted that the high bird process CPU consumption is caused by high chassis temperature when charging. So if you notice that your CPU usage is quite high when your Mac is plugged into the power adapter, you need to try to lower the temperature first.

Corrupt kernel extensions or kexts can also be the cause high bird process CPU usage. These third-party extensions, if not set up properly, can eat up a huge chunk of your CPU resources.

Mac users should consider the presence of malware, particularly crypto miners. These malicious software tend to mimic legitimate processes, such as bird process, in order to perform its activities on your Mac.

How Do I Stop Bird Processes on Mac?

There are three ways to stop the bird process and other problematic processes on your Mac.

Force Quit Using the Apple Menu

The most conventional and effective way to close frozen programs is to go to the macOS® menu bar, located along the top of the screen in the Finder menu. To force quit an application, simply do the following:

1. Click on the Apple icon in the upper-left corner.
2. From the drop-down menu, choose Force Quit.
3. Select iCloud and choose Force Quit.

Force Quit with Mac Shortcut

To do the same thing but faster, use Mac shortcut keys to close faulty applications.

On your keyboard, press and hold Command + Option + Esc. It will immediately bring up a Force Quit Application window. Select iCloud and choose Force Quit.

This could be your go-to method if the mouse or trackpad is lagging.

Close Application from Activity Monitor

macOS provides an almost identical alternative to the traditional Windows Control+Alt+Delete shortcut, which is often used to open the Task Manager window.

You can easily do all of that and more on the macOS native application called Activity Monitor. To kill an application or process using this tool, do the following.

1. On your keyboard, press Command + Space, or click on Spotlight in the top-right corner of the screen.
2. In the Spotlight Search window, start typing Activity Monitor.
3. Once Activity Monitor is highlighted, hit Enter.
4. In the Activity Monitor processes list, select Bird and iCloud and click Force a process to quit in the left corner.

What to Do About the Bird Process Mac

If you notice that the Bird Process is eating up a huge amount of your computer resources, here are some of the steps you can do first:

Restart Your Computer. Refreshing your operating system is an effective way to reset your processes and lower their usage to the default level. Click on the Apple menu and choose Restart. Don’t forget to uncheck Reopen windows when logging back in.

Quit All Unnecessary Apps and Windows. If you have a lot of program windows or Finder windows open, some processes will have to work harder and consume more resources. So if you notice that your Mac has become unusually slow or finds it difficult to perform some actions, consider closing the windows or apps that you no longer need. Make sure to save your files first before closing any window to avoid data loss. This will allow your system to breathe and let macOS operate fluently.

You can approach the bird process issue from several perspectives. Here are some solutions you can try:

Does It Bother Your Mac?

First, ask the question of whether it is worth dwelling on the matter. Having a look at your Activity Monitor, some other app can use more than 50 percent of your computer’s CPU resources. And that’s not an issue at all! Is the bird’s CPU usage actually causing problems on your computer? If it is does not seem to, then you can live and let live.

If you feel that your precious system resources are going to waste, then don’t forget to regularly clean up your Mac. You can, for instance, use an efficient Mac repair tool to clean and optimize your machine’s overall performance. From running a quick scan and pinpointing issues, it can clear valuable space, get rid of junk, and enhance system operations and stability.

After optimizing your Mac, you can go back and see if you apps and programs are now working smoothly and as expected.

Reset Your iCloud

In Finder, click on the G” in the menu bar while holding down the Option key. Scroll to this folder:

Copy the files to somewhere safe, like your Desktop or any other folder. There should only be three files inside the folder. You might need them back later on so make sure you have a backup. Now empty the folder and restart. This might solve your iCloud bird process issue.

Check for Pending Uploads to iCloud

When you notice a high bird process usage, it is possible that there are files being synced to the iCloud drive. To check if this is the case, there is a brctl utility that ships with macOS to monitor changes in all iCloud backed documents. There are two versions to this command:

• brctl log –wait –shorten
• brctl log -w –shorten

For mac OS before Catalina, open terminal and type the following command: brctl log –wait –shorten

Press Enter and wait for the results.

For Macs running mac OS Catalina 10.15, use the following command: brctl log -w –shorten

These commands will show you a brief summary of the sync changes on your iCloud drive. The wait for the sync causes bird to run continuously unless you close the window or press Control + C to quit the process. If you are also familiar with the grep command line utility, you can filter the results to show only the upload progress. Most iCloud accounts, however, have quite low volume in terms of changes, so you should easily see the upload of many files in the results.

Also, the best way to tell if files are syncing is to log into the iCloud drive using the web interface and verify that files and folders are added there in the clouds.

Deal with the Issue on iCloud and iCloud Drive

Go into your iCloud settings and turn off your iCloud drive. This should result in the issue going away. This action will also probably delete some cache files being used by iCloud, which could be causing the bird process to eat up CPU usage in the first place.

To turn off iCloud on your Mac, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Apple menu > System Preferences.
2. Click iCloud.
3. Select or deselect the feature.

Note that when you turn off an iCloud feature on your Mac, information that’s stored only in iCloud for the said feature isn’t available on the computer anymore.

Reset Your Mac’s SMC

The System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac is responsible for a number of low-level functions. These include responding to power button presses, battery and thermal management, keyboard backlighting, and status indicator light (SIL) management.

It might be time to reset the SMC if your computer is misbehaving in various ways. One is when its fans are running at high speed despite not being under heavy usage and having proper ventilation. Another is if your Mac performs unusually slowly, although the CPU is not under an unreasonably heavy load.

According to Apple, you should avoid resetting the SMC without attempting other troubleshooting tasks first. These include the following:

1. Is your Mac unresponsive? Press and hold the power button until it shuts down. Afterwards, press the power button again to switch on your Mac. Note that you will lose unsaved work in any open apps.
2. Press Command-Option*-Escape to force quit any app that isn’t responding.
3. Put your Mac to sleep. Choose Apple menu > Sleep, and then wake it up after it has gone to sleep.
4. Restart your Mac by selecting Apple menu > Restart.
5. Shut down your Mac by selecting Apple menu > Shut Down. Next, press the power button again to turn on your Mac.

To reset your SMC on a desktop Mac, follow these steps:

1. Shut down your computer.
2. Disconnect the power cord, whether from the Mac or from the AC outlet. Wait 15 seconds before plugging it back in.
3. Wait another five seconds. Afterwards, turn your Mac back on.

Check if the odd problem involving the bird process has disappeared.

Reset Your Mac’s NVRAM

It used to be that curing random Mac woes involved “zapping” the PRAM, which is the parameter random access memory. It pertains to a small part of special and battery-backed memory in every Mac computer that stored information needed before it loaded the OS.

Modern Mac machines no longer use PRAM, but instead have the non-volatile random access memory or NVRAM. It serves practically the same purpose but now only contains few pieces of information, including speaker volume, screen resolutions, your selected startup disk, and last kernel panic details.

It is fairly harmless to reset the NVRAM if your Mac is having a number of weird issues. Here are the steps to do it:

1. Shut down your computer.
2. Press the power button. As soon as the computer powers up, hold down the Command + Option + P + R keys. Do this for some 20 seconds.
3. Let go of the keys and let your Mac continue to start as usual. If yours is an older Mac that chimes at boot, keep holding down the keys until you hear a second startup chime.
4. To make sure they are set as intended, go to System Preferences and check the Startup Disk, Display, and Date & Time panes.

Scan for Malware.

If all of the above solutions don’t work, then you need to consider the presence of malware on your Mac. Scan your computer using your anti-malware software and delete all threats detected. Make sure to delete all the malware’s components to prevent it from coming back.

Summary

If you see the bird process in your Mac’s Activity Monitor translating to high CPU usage, you can try any of the quick fixes we outlined above. You cannot entirely get rid of this process because it is part of the backend process of iCloud and iCloud drive.

Have you encountered the bird process before? Tell us about your story!

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