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Sequel Pro causing macbook to overheat and how I solved it.
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Sequel Pro caused my macbook to overheat and how I solved it.

the situation

Sequel Pro seemed to take longer than usual to start up. Did not mind at first.
Did some simple house keeping, adding and updating files through the wysiwyg editor.
Later, tried to run a simple query

update {table} set {col} = 'value';

This caused my macbook to lock up. The fans went into overdrive and for probably the first time ever, I felt my tiny 11" macbook air heating up.

Managed to pull up Activity Monitor which showed kernal_task, cfprefsd and Sequel Pro working the CPU. I'm not how the hell you can go over 100%, but they went over 100% and stayed there.

Solution

Googling brought up several solutions for kernal_task and cfprefsd, none of which helped me.

Here's what I did.

  • Reboot PRAM
  • Reset SMC
  • Uninstall Sequel Pro
  • Remove all related files (must be done via terminal, files didn't show up in finder)
    • go to ~/Library/Application Support
    • remove Sequel Pro folder rm -r Sequel\ Pro/
    • go to ~/Library/Preferences folder
    • remove all com.sequel files rm com.sequel*
  • Reboot and reinstall.
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