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mizech
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Suddenly the fan of my Mac Mini starts to run as crazy - Possible reason / elimination?

Just started my Mac Mini 15 minutes ago. Suddenly the fan started to work and the sound is clearly hearable. Normally the machine works quietly. I took a look into the processes-table and found that there is a process "accountsd". Shall likely be the "Accounts daemon", I guess ...

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Might the "accountsd"-process be related to the annoying fan-trouble?

What can be the reason of the described behaviour, out of the blue?

What can one do against it?

Here are the OS-specs:

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