[CUBE] 100% Load Wouldn't Go Away

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-16 05:00, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> I noticed that my load was stuck on 100% and everything was working at
> a glacial pace accordingly. As I progressively quit Netscape,
> Photoshop, Safari, Mail etc. the load remained at 100%. I got down to
> just the finder and the http://www.macunicorn.com TurboMem that I
> always have running in the background. Still 100% load. Quit TurboMem
> and the load remained at 100%.
> 
> So I shut down the entire Cube, started it back up and now the load is
> back to a normal 10% ±5%. So I'm just wondering if anyone knows the
> mystery of why my processor load got stuck on 100%?

Run top in a Terminal. The most CPU-intensive process will be at the top of
the list. Or use Process Viewer (in /Applications/Utilities), which
basically does the same as top.

It is likely some interface-less process that is eating all your horsepower.

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