Hi Guys, For the past 2 days my CPU has been running on 100% even when I dont have many applications running. i did a top in terminal and this is what i got: Processes: 63 total, 3 running, 60 sleeping... 193 threads 17:09:57 Load Avg: 2.10, 1.37, 0.63 CPU usage: 32.8% user, 67.2% sys, 0.0% idle SharedLibs: num = 116, resident = 33.2M code, 3.46M data, 11.4M LinkEdit MemRegions: num = 8455, resident = 73.8M + 18.0M private, 97.6M shared PhysMem: 83.2M wired, 156M active, 152M inactive, 391M used, 632M free VM: 4.32G + 79.9M 21026(2) pageins, 0(0) pageouts PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE 433 top 11.8% 0:03.02 1 16 26 296K 464K 2.14M 27.1M 430 bash 0.0% 0:00.02 1 12 15 128K 920K 1.27M 18.2M 429 login 0.0% 0:00.06 1 13 37 140K 456K 2.34M 26.9M 428 Terminal 12.8% 0:02.35 5 71 174 2.18M+ 16.2M 19.4M+ 120M- 427 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.06 1 24 31 444K 1.84M 3.98M 35.8M 425 pmTool 1.5% 0:02.27 1 21 24 412K 412K 3.05M 27.1M 424 Activity M 3.5% 0:07.18 6 112 211 4.34M- 22.4M 25.8M 140M 423 Mail 0.0% 0:04.25 11 148 281 4.60M 30.5M 41.3M 142M 419 iChatAgent 0.0% 0:00.17 2 60 40 640K 2.75M 6.16M 69.1M 418 mount_webd 0.0% 0:00.03 7 45 35 340K 896K 1.15M 30.4M 413 TechToolPr 0.0% 0:00.45 1 56 95 912K 11.1M 12.8M 112M 412 LaunchBar 0.0% 0:11.28 3 97 253 5.71M 20.9M 26.0M 138M 411 Synergy 0.0% 0:01.03 3 69 245 3.02M 23.5M 21.0M 144M 410 System Eve 0.0% 0:00.61 3 62 106 1.45M 6.95M 13.3M 76.5M 409 SetiChatSt 0.0% 0:00.84 4 68 214 2.32M 17.3M 18.4M 135M 407 Ejector 0.0% 0:00.48 3 66 150 1.37M 9.74M 14.2M 113M I fixed permissions and repaired disk and the fan is still on constantly. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks, Sam -- OS 10.3.8 Tibook G4 867 MHz, 1GB RAM, 32MB Video, 60GB HD, 250GB External HD Airport Express 30GB iPod iChat: Sambouka http://homepage.mac.com/sambouka