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Developers may want tailspind and spindump running, so be aware of the consequences.

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Occasionally, though and more and more frequently recently events would cascade such that my CPU would run at full tilt for 5-10 minutes before finally settling in.

When that was happening, Activity Monitor andor iStat Menus would show two system processes chewing up CPU: tailspind and spindump.

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Time to figure out how to stop that Research led me to these two very loosely-defined scenarios where tailspind and spindump would decide to run 1: An application asks tailspind and spindump to take a snapshot of the state of that application and write it out to disk, or; Some application or process would consume maximum CPU for some period of time (30 seconds seems to be the general consensus), and then tailspind and spindump would fire up to take a snapshot of what was going on for future debugging purposes.

Its this second case that kept happening to me, and possibly to you.

The problem is that it would create a cascading scenario of constrained CPU resources where one app would run, then spindumptailspind would run, consuming CPU of its own, causing other apps to run for too long, causing spindumptailspind to fire up again and so on and so forth.

In the interim it would be tailspind and spindump consuming a majority of the CPU while the processes you actually want to run tried to squeak by.

I looked at the logfiles created by spindumptailspind and they (basically) told me what I already knew: some process needed a significant amount of work done and my 6-year-old CPU took longer than some pre-set limit to do it.

I certainly dont need extra CPU resources dedicated to telling me that something Ive decided to run is using the CPU.

And, generally-speaking, the why behind the extra CPU usage is already known, too.

Given this, I set about disabling spindump and tailspind, and my life has been blissful ever since.

My MacBook Air wakes up quickly and is immediately responsive.

Reboots are no longer something I dread, battery life is much better, and, quite frankly, my machine is fully usable again.

It feels like I rewound 4 years in terms of general usability.

Disabling tailspind and spindump on macOS High Sierra macOS High Sierra 2 includes System Integrity Protection, which means that certain files are untouchable and uneditable.

This has the benefit of helping keep your system files pure and malware-free, with the cost of flexibility.

To disable tailspind and spindump we need that flexibility, and that means temporarily disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP).

To disable SIP: Boot your Mac into Recovery Mode by restarting with Command-R held down until the Apple logo appears.

Once your Mac is in Recovery Mode, go to Utilities Terminal.

In the Recovery Mode Terminal, issue csrutil disable and press return.

Reboot your Mac. Once SIP is disabled, the steps to disable tailspind and spindump are pretty straightforward 3.

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Its advisable to check these after macOS upgrades as its entirely possible that an upgrade could re-enable these processes without any warning.

Apologies to those who are more technically-minded about the functions of tailspind and spindumpIm playing fast and loose just to make a point.

Ive only tested this on macOS High Sierra, but macOS Sierra also contains these same processes.