Mac CPU increases drastically and gets hot

trividar · Apr 30, 2020, 7:46 AM

Hello together
I need your help, my MM runs on my Mac Mini 2012 catalina. When I minimize MM (still running in the background) everything is ok, as soon as I bring MM to the front my CPU increases drastically and the Mac gets really hot… what can be the reason?

first picture MM is minimized and on the second picture it runs in the foreground and there you can see the cpu increase extremely.

JohnBachini · Apr 30, 2020, 8:04 AM

Have you tied removing module by module to see if you can pin point if one of them is causing the problems

trividar · Apr 30, 2020, 8:56 AM

@JohnBachini good point, MMM-DarkSkyForecast causing the problem. So I guess there’s no way to solve this problem…

JohnBachini · Apr 30, 2020, 9:02 AM

@trividar

I know that module does use bit of cpu if all the icon animation is turned on, but would have thought your mac mini should have easily managed that. Well there are plenty of other weather modules to use :-)

trividar · Apr 30, 2020, 9:15 AM

@JohnBachini this was also my thought that an i5 should handle that, but the cpu goes up to over 90% and the Mac mini gets really really hot… Hmm it looks like i have to find an other weather module, but this module just looks awesome ;o(

JohnBachini · Apr 30, 2020, 9:38 AM

@trividar
Yeah i have 2012 MacMini which i use for plexserver, so when that’s transcoding that’s using a lot of cpu, so a few animated icons shouldn’t even show up as load. The other thing to note is darksky has been bought by Apple, and they’ve announced that API access will be stopped in 2022.

trividar · Apr 30, 2020, 10:07 AM

Hey @j-e-f-f maybe you can help me as the creator of the module ;o) is there a way to use the animated icons without killing my cpu? Thanks a lot!

JohnBachini · Apr 30, 2020, 10:17 AM

@trividar just as a test have you tried it with animation turned off, just to confirm it is the animation causing the problems. ?

Stoffbeuteluwe · Apr 30, 2020, 10:27 AM

@trividar hey, I have a mac too, when I show on my mirror some moving object like video or spinning globe or something like that the Mac goes hot too.
When I show normal modules the Mac is warm but not hot that’s ok.
You can use the default weathermodule and change the icon with something you like, I have done this and it looks really cool.

trividar · Apr 30, 2020, 11:06 AM

@JohnBachini it’s definitely the animated icons, because when i deactivate them the mac runs on max. 10 % cpu.