I installed Mavericks yesterday afternoon. This morning I noticed an unusually heavy CPU drain. It turned out that Adobe CEF Helper was grabbing about 25% of my CPU and Creative Cloud between 4-10%. As best I could tell nothing was happening to justify that, like a background file download. Waiting changed nothing. Quitting and restarting Creative Cloud didn’t fix the problem.
Clicking on the CC icon in the menu bar, I found that with the Home tab selected there’s a blank screen and spinning blue wheel. All the other tabs seem OK. It does seem like something in Mavericks, at least in my installation, isn’t playing nice with Creative Cloud. For now, I can quit Creative Cloud, but that’s no long term solution.
Mavericks does seem to insert a lot of security fixes. Yesterday I helped a developer fix troubles with his app. He needed to write to Calendar. In previous version that had no checking. In Mavericks he has to pass through a check that lets a user decide whether that’s to be permitted.
Adobe and the cloud synching may be hitting up against a new security wall in Mavericks. I have given Adobe a bug report on this. Whatever it is is not generating any Console message though.
CPU drain is easily missed but can be a symptom of something serious. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.
–Mike Perry
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