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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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?

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. The Mac bird process 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.

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.

What to Do About the Bird Process Mac

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.

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 bird process 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.

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.

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