DisplayLink Software - High CPU on MBA

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Originally Posted by tommiy

With NightShift turned off I have had 2 days without High CPU issues on WindowServer process (and subequently the 100% CPU utilisation by DisplayLink). Seems that Apple is correct and they have broken the NightShift process on 18G95. Server me right for installing the supplementary updates.

No patch expected from Apple on Mojave. Catalina is a hope they may fix it.

Originally Posted by allanamiller

I had this problem and discovered that disabling Night Shift made it go away. Presumably there is some bug in the driver that is tickled by that, although clearly that may not be the only cause. YMMV.

I'm experiencing the same thing with the same results when you disable Night Shift on Mojave 10.14.16 and with the

5.2.1 beta 3 DL drivers installed. Disable Night Shift -> DisplayLinkManager CPU usage drops from around 100% to around 4 ~ 8%

Some colleagues have upgraded to Catalina 10.15.1 and suggest in general to wait, without focusing on DisplayLinkManager and CPU usage, just in general to wait with updating to Catalina. So that's what I'll be doing (crashed and burned before )