Sam, What does it show when you do top -o time (order by cpu-time)? There you should see the offending process or processes. HTH, Arjan On 15 feb 2005, at 14:14, Sambouka wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > --- Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a sick mind -- (Terry Pratchett, Mort)