High CPU usage on macbook on non-git folders
Open 💬 2 comments Opened Mar 24, 2026 by jerometremblay
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 26.318.11754 (1100)
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
As soon as i started Codex, i had peaking usage of several osx services, mainly opendirectoryd, trustd and sysmond.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Create a non-git project, and import a lot of stuff in it, such as node_modules. I had Wiki.js
What is the expected behavior?
Not a full cpu core running opendirectoryd.
Additional information
Under the hood, when the folder is not within git, it calls git on each file one after the other. Git trying to authenticate something causes the high usage.
Moving the wiki folder out of my codex work area solved the problem.
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I am letting Codex work on local files on hard drive.
When I use Visual Studio Code and the codex plugin. (Code helper process) gives 150% CPU usage.
Guess this is the same problem.