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TIP: Citrix Receiver daemon eats CPU utilization in Lion

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

A reader notes that after upgrading to Lion, CPU utilization was running amok, with fans blasting. It turned out it was the AGAdmin process of the Citrix Receiver application that had a problem with Lion. Citrix Receiver enables Mac users to run Windows applications as a service over a network or the Internet. The reader's report:

I'm fairly new to OSX but and been a Windows engineer for years. High CPU utilization on Lion due to AGAdmin process -- I experienced this myself. I had just updated my late 2010 MacBook Air to 10.7 and noticed it was loud, hot and draining about 2 percent battery a minute. Application Monitor shows process AGAdmin consuming 50-90 percent CPU. This app belongs to the Citrix Receiver app.

A Google search led me to disable the daemon, which fixed the problem, but I need XenApp on my Mac for IE and Visio. Last week or so, Citrix released Receiver 11.4, which seems to have resolved the issue.

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