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I think I'm missing out as mine drops by a very pedestrian 10% an hour. WindowServer keeps using a cool 4% of the CPU at all times, even when nothing is running

I think I'm missing out as mine drops by a very pedestrian 10% an hour. WindowServer keeps using a cool 4% of the CPU at all times, even when nothing is running.

grumpyprole 5y ago
Perhaps you have some rogue process that is causing windows server to run at 4%?
- mmargerum 5y ago
  Visual studio code haha
  - harshitaneja 5y ago
    I am not 2021 macbook pro's yet but on 2020 M1 VS Code doesn't have higher than usual impact on battery. Atleast I, with 7-8 active vscode windows throughout the day, couldn't notice.
GhettoComputers 5y ago
The task manager (called activity monitor) has a power usage section. It might be syncing or if you had Firefox on it uses way more than safari.
merrywhether 5y ago
Any chance you have Dropbox running? They are very slow to native M1 support and otherwise their app manages to really kill battery life.
vmception 5y ago
I’m actually debating if I even want to do a backup and restore because of this. I don’t want my chimera of an environment. I think I want to just use this machine fresh and just move a few files over as needed.
saagarjha 5y ago
How are you measuring CPU usage? Presumably whatever monitoring tool you're looking at needs to redraw itself, and that's going to bring in WindowServer… (FWIW, my WindowServer usage is generally around 3-8% when idling and I am losing about 6% an hour at the moment.)
jb1991 5y ago
Any background process running through Rosetta, like dropbox, or maybe your Windows server, will eat up tons of battery if they’re not running native.
spacelamb 5y ago
I had it even worse only 5 hours of battery life in my first week of usage. It turned out OneDrive had a bug with syncing; after reinstalling (then keeping it on overnight for the sync to finish), the battery jumped to ~8-10 hours with fairly heavy usage (Parallels + Safari, though with syncing paused), which is near your current level. The Energy tab of the Activity Monitor helped me identify OneDrive as the power suck.

I think I'm missing out as mine drops by a very pedestrian 10% an hour. WindowServer keeps using a cool 4% of the CPU at all times, even when nothing is running.

grumpyprole 5y ago

Perhaps you have some rogue process that is causing windows server to run at 4%?

mmargerum 5y ago
Visual studio code haha
- harshitaneja 5y ago
  I am not 2021 macbook pro's yet but on 2020 M1 VS Code doesn't have higher than usual impact on battery. Atleast I, with 7-8 active vscode windows throughout the day, couldn't notice.

GhettoComputers 5y ago

The task manager (called activity monitor) has a power usage section. It might be syncing or if you had Firefox on it uses way more than safari.

merrywhether 5y ago

Any chance you have Dropbox running? They are very slow to native M1 support and otherwise their app manages to really kill battery life.

vmception 5y ago

I’m actually debating if I even want to do a backup and restore because of this. I don’t want my chimera of an environment. I think I want to just use this machine fresh and just move a few files over as needed.

saagarjha 5y ago

How are you measuring CPU usage? Presumably whatever monitoring tool you're looking at needs to redraw itself, and that's going to bring in WindowServer… (FWIW, my WindowServer usage is generally around 3-8% when idling and I am losing about 6% an hour at the moment.)

jb1991 5y ago

Any background process running through Rosetta, like dropbox, or maybe your Windows server, will eat up tons of battery if they’re not running native.

spacelamb 5y ago

I had it even worse only 5 hours of battery life in my first week of usage. It turned out OneDrive had a bug with syncing; after reinstalling (then keeping it on overnight for the sync to finish), the battery jumped to ~8-10 hours with fairly heavy usage (Parallels + Safari, though with syncing paused), which is near your current level. The Energy tab of the Activity Monitor helped me identify OneDrive as the power suck.