Hi, I've noticed that my MacBook Pro (a 2017 13" Touchbar model) gets really hot after around half an hour running Joplin. Looking at the Activity Monitor, I see the WindowServer process taking between 10 and 30% of CPU permanently when Joplin is open, compared to around 2% when it's closed (with o…

Do you have any plugins installed? If so, disable them and see if the issue persists.

There is no active plugins in my setup at the moment

I'm not sure if the WindowServer process is the culprit (appears to be from CPU usage), but Joplin energy impact is just through the roof (iddle, no sync going on). In addition to heating, this will burn through my battery faster than I can write a couple of notes [Capture d’écran 2022-01-07 à 1…

Is it using the official release? And is it when a particular note is open, or with all notes? Is there something special about your note collection, such as many tags or notebooks? Also do you have anything special on the system like anti-virus, etc. that might be conflicting with Joplin?

This is with 2.6.10, latest release. I have around 8,000 notes in ~200 notebooks for the largest database, but I also see it with the smaller one (2,000 notes in 45 notebooks). So it doesn't appear to be specific to a displayed note. No antivirus (is there something like a system antivirus on macOS…

How many tags? (you can check from Help > Sync Status). Also is the app doing something, like decrypting items for example?

I have no encrypted notes and I don't use tags (I might have a dozen of them from very old notes). But wait, I'm testing with the smaller database/regular Joplin now, as the screenshot was made with the larger database, that I launch using an app that is made from an applecript that is just a comma…

Mmmh I have seen the heating/drawing on resource consistently with the large database / custom profile using applescript app. I need a bit of time to test independantly the various components and see where is the problem exactly. Right now running the same profile but launching it directly from Term…

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After testing by launhcing the profile from Terminal directly, it seems to behave OK. I see the large resource use when I launch it using an app made from this script in Script Editor: do shell script "/Applications/Joplin.app/Contents/MacOS/Joplin --profile /Users/christo/Documents/Joplin/Perso/" …

High CPU usage from WindowServer process when Joplin is running (macOS)

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High CPU usage from WindowServer process when Joplin is running (macOS)

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