MS Teams Helper using up >100% of CPU MacBook

Anonymous
2020-05-22T10:17:30+00:00

Since the latest update of MS Teams (current version 1.3.00.9271 updated on 07/05/20) on a MacBook (early 2015), every time I now join a Teams call, the Microsoft Teams Helper is using >100% of CPU and causing the laptop to overheat. I have disabled the GPU acceleration as seen on some other message boards but this has no impact, and could do with a fix for this ASAP.

Many thanks in advance.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-13T07:50:49+00:00

    Thanks for this script, I will definitely try it out, I have the exact same problem as everyone else.

    But just to be sure, to undo the changes this makes, is it just to change the value between -n and -p to 0, or is there another way?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-09T14:39:45+00:00

    Interesting - first test wast good ... below sh script to make it automated:

    teamsfix.sh

    #!/bin/bash

    my_array=( $(pgrep -f renderer) )

    for i in "${my_array[@]}"

    do

       renice -n 10 -p $i

    done

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-29T12:24:31+00:00

    Thanks, I will try those changes immediately.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-24T13:46:33+00:00

    Thanks for tips! I will try zoom. And I think you're right. Microsoft probably think it's Apples problem.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T09:47:42+00:00

    Same.  Got the M1 Air with 16GB and it eats up everything I throw at it, even Teams.  

    Helps that it doesnt have a fan also :)

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