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We’ve heard about this from a couple of customers. Here’s a fix one customer confirmed resolved coreaudiod and launchd consuming a high amount of CPU.
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From a customer:
I figured out what the problem was, in case anyone else runs into this. The Bluetooth daemon had crashed. I’m not sure why that made coreaudiod and launchd go crazy, but the fix is this:
If the daemon has crashed, you may see a message like this:
Next, run this:
Once blued is running properly again, coreaudiod and launchd both settle down.