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After upgrading my M1 iMac to Sequoia yesterday, I've been noticing that the CPU usage for Google Drive is constantly high (25 to 45%). Since none of the Google Drive folders are downloaded, this CPU usage in the past has always been very low--so low as to be almost unnoticeable.
There are a few posts on Reddit about this same issue.
iMac 24″, macOS 15.0
I noticed the same thing on a 13'' M2 MBP running Sequoia. Whenever I connect my external monitor the CPU usage of Google Drive goes up to 40-50%. It drops to almost 0% when I disconnect the drive. This happens consistently and must be at least part of the problem. Maybe Google Drive thinks the monitor is an external disk that it tries to scan?
Oh my gosh! On my 2021, 16" MBPRO, I just unplugged my second monitor and BOOM! 52.2% to 0.2%! What the heck?!
A new version of Google Drive was made available today on our M1 iMac on Sequoia, "Version 97.0.1.0 (Apple Silicon) (File Provider)". After installing the updated version, CPU usage is still high; currently it's at 49%.
i.lewis.au wrote:
I provided feedback to the Google Drive team via the settings in the desktop app. I assume that the more feedback they get, the more attention the issue will get, so has everyone done this?
This is the only real way to get any company's, including Apple, attention. Excellent advice.
Yes, uninstalling the app by dragging to the bin or whatever doesn't clean out the data stored in ~/Library etc. In general, having that data still there is useful for re-installation, however in this case maybe not so much. The Google Drive data seems to be in '/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS', but there might be others I haven't come across.
I replaced Google Drive with Mountain Duck. Solved the problem.
That's an interesting solution and you've got me looking into it... only concerns I have is that apparently it uses a different API to access Drive and so it may get rate limited? Additionally, I think in a Google Workspace environment, a Workspace Admin has to approve its use somehow? My main use case is (unfortunately) Workspace...
Can you still right click in Finder to get a GDrive "sharing link" when you're using Mountain Duck?
Unrelated to Mountain Duck - I upgraded to Sequoia 15.1 (just released yesterday), and the problem still persists there.
I have just done the same.
Same problem for me on version 99.0
It's been 1.5 months and not still not fixed by Google. Hard to justify sticking with Google when their software support is this bad.
Does no one at Google use a Mac and multiple monitors?
Google Drive CPU usage is high after upgrading to Sequoia
