Thanks, Jason. I'll have a peruse of that article.
The background image is just a stock Apple wallpaper (not one of the animated or varying ones but just a nice colour!) Not sure what could be demanding graphics work. Will have a ponder and see what's what. Just now it fired up for literally 3 seconds and then stopped (and never tends to get going again, so it's something on startup). And I'm running 15.7.2. AP On Friday, 6 February 2026 at 14:59:43 UTC Jason Davies wrote: > This is not very helpful but relevant: > https://macsecurity.net/view/659-mtlcompilerservice-high-cpu-mac > > Do you have a high res background image on your desktop? *Something* is > demanding graphics work. Anything in Accessibility about contrast etc. What > OS are you running? > > Cheers, > > Jason > > On 6 Feb 2026, at 14:50, Adam Pymble wrote: > > Hello everyone > > Just a small thing really, but my MBP is a faithful workhorse nearly 7 > years young. > > Only thing I've noticed lately is whenever I boot (and/or wake from sleep) > the fans get very loud as it gets very hot for the first 5mins or so. It > then settles down quite happily. > > I've attached a screen grab of Activity Monitor if there's any gremlins > lurking there anybody can identify? > > Thanks > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/afc53e04-5000-42cb-95d2-80d06b8b805cn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/afc53e04-5000-42cb-95d2-80d06b8b805cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > Cheers, > > Jason > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3a02a076-b975-4ef7-b031-7d803a2e8498n%40googlegroups.com.
