Particle Dev on OSX Runaway Process

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Is anyone else seeing Particle Dev runaway process issues?

I see after a short period (30-40mins use) my disks spinning and fans working overtime.

My machine generates a heat bloom visible from the space station.

Would a complete reinstall help?

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Which OSX version are you running ?
Is the ISS seeing one hot spot from the space only when you run Particle dev, or even some other app causes this effect ?
What about your CPU load ?

Claudio

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@duffo64

I’m running OSX 10.10.4

I have it dow to Particle Dev. Honestly it could be a combination of Dev and another app, I just cannot fond what triggers it.

in idle state “atom Helper” consumes 27% of CPU.

cpu load (no apps running except daemons approx 1.5%

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I also see Atom Helper using 27% CPU on my Mac Book Pro Retina (Late 2013) running Mac OS X 10.11 GM

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This is really weird, as I have Particle dev + helpers at 0% when idle (both 10.9.5 and 10.10.5).
I hoped about a system problem on 10.9.x, but this seems really Atom related, sorry :frowning:

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Bumping this topic. I have recently installed Particle Dev and seeing Atom Helper CPU usage on a Mac (OSX 10.12.2) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 go to 120%. By disabling/enabling the packages, I’ve found that:

  • Showing a Serial Monitor window is about 80% of that only when the Electron is connected
  • The Tool Bar is about 40% only when a device selected

Since these outputs are related to how Particle Dev uses Atom, it would seem the problem might be on the Particle Dev side of things.

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Maybe not the answer you’re looking for but:
I’ve stopped using Atom (and Particle Dev) because the battery life of my macbook is cut in half…
I switched to sublime text with particle cli. It’s quite easy to use : )

You can just use vanilla sublime text and install particle-cli with npm (https://github.com/spark/particle-cli).
It as easy as going to your project folder in a terminal and typing:
particle flash [devicename] .
OR
particle compile photon .