Folding@Home Project Overloading CPU – Solutions

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Three to four weeks ago I read an article which was talking about the project Folding@Home which helps researchers find a cure for the CoVid-19.

Since then my Mac has been pretty noisy, although the idea was to run the software when I was not working on my Mac. Today I noticed that despite not having so much running on the Mac it is noisy and also kind of hot underneath.

In the iStat, i found out that the FAHclient was taking the most of the CPU power (even when not running it). I uninstalled the software and its client is still running in the background.

I also terminated the process related to it in the terminal:

ps aux | grep fah

kill the pid

iStat

How can I uninstall it completely as it's not letting me concentrate since a while.

Best Answer

If you don't deselect the Uninstaller in the installer app, the Folding@home folder also contains an uninstaller.pkg:

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If the Uninstall Folding@home.pkg is missing in your environment simply download the installer and install Folding@Home again. Then use the pkg to uninstall everything properly.