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LR Classic 9.1 on MBP 15” late 2013: fan at top speed continuously

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Hello all,

Fan quickly starts blowing towards top speed upon starting LR 9.1 with my precious years-and-years-upgraded main LR catalog. Activity monitor shows a process called WindowServer rising to 90-100% CPU. After quitting LR this process goes down a bit in CPU% but keeps active at much higher than normal activity.

LR Classic 8.4.1 works fine with the same catalog (used last V8 catalog backup before upgrading to v9).

Anyone here noticing similar behaviour?
 
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Hi Hal, thanks for that find. However, my machine isn’t slow at all. And besides LR I have no fan issues.

basically I guess my first step here is meant to see if this issue is LR Classic v9 related, I.e. if there are more users that went from 8 to 9 on a machine with my setup and that encounter this issue. Because if I’m alone here in the LR forum I’ll need to troubleshoot my system rather than blame LR.
 
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Trouble shoot your system. A Late 2013 MBP probably has lots of "dust bunnies" accumulated inside IIRC, there are only three tiny vent slits on there MBP. I would first vacuum these ports to suck out anything restricting air flow. If that does not help, then I'd remove the keyboard and repeat the process. Run a MEMTEST on the RAM to see if that might be failing the stress test. If the system shuts down it is because the temperature has triggered a shut down. The reason the fan runs is because the electronics are generating too much heat
 
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Hi Cletus, thanks for your considerations. This machine just got back from Apple where they replaced the battery. I experienced similar behaviour before and after the repair. At Apple, the machine was taken apart, then the metal upper plate with keyboard and trackpad cutouts was exchanged for a new one, then al parts have been reassembled on that new plate. I can only guess that any dust will have been blown out but I don't know for sure.

Anyway like I said I have had similar behaviour before with earlier LR versions when actually doing work in LR. I figured that is to be expected as LR CPU usage rises to almost 300% on this quad core machine while generating previews for example. However the way the fan blazes air at a mere launch of v9 really takes the biscuit.

Meanwhile I tried some things. I restarted my system and launched LR first. I finally decided I'd get rid of an old Bitdefender install for which the uninstaller failed so I had to restart machine, press cmd+R, get into recovery mode and delete some lib and extensions files by hand (official Bitdefender fall back instructions). At this moment I am typing this message with Safari and LR 9.1 running, so far so good.
 
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Okay guys I made some progress troubleshooting. There were "warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 1702486)" errors in First Aid Disk Utility which I finally solved by going into Recovery Mode and run First Aid from there. I removed Bitdefender and cleaned up any entries in library/extensions, daemons and agents. From here I will first try and get back to work to see how the machine responds to some serious Lightrooming...
 
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Zenon said:
When I travel I use a 2015 MacBook Air with Catalina and 9.1. No a powerful machine. Only 4GB of Ram and works OK. To help it out some more you may consider reading this. I follow it on both my Air and iMac.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/optimize-performance-lightroom.html
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Hi Zenon, thanks for your info and link. A 2015 MBAir w/ 4GB RAM running LR 9.1 adequately means my 2013 MBP w/ 16GB should be able to keep up well. Thank you for that useful information and the link. Yes I also use links for optimisation, that is good practice .
 
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It is no rocket ship but it plugs away. Rarely a spinning ball an no crashes but I avoid heavy brush work using LR on the road.
 
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