hi Arjan, here is what i got: Last login: Tue Feb 15 19:30:02 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! Samboukas-Mac:~ sambouka$ top -o time Processes: 77 total, 3 running, 74 sleeping... 270 threads 22:45:03 Load Avg: 1.82, 1.70, 1.73 CPU usage: 34.3% user, 65.7% sys, 0.0% idle SharedLibs: num = 128, resident = 38.2M code, 3.01M data, 12.2M LinkEdit MemRegions: num = 12175, resident = 173M + 24.8M private, 172M shared PhysMem: 101M wired, 498M active, 411M inactive, 1012M used, 11.5M free VM: 6.19G + 85.8M 86168(0) pageins, 14255(0) pageouts PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE 831 Finder 60.5% 2:00:37 5 154 324 6.38M 33.0M 21.7M 156M 791 TechTool P 0.0% 22:53.31 6 128 377 12.2M 27.1M 38.9M 137M 204 WindowServ 4.2% 20:05.99 3 448 802 9.20M+ 66.0M 67.0M+ 178M+ 1474 firefox-bi 2.1% 19:04.79 12 201 388 27.2M 40.0M 59.4M 336M 1488 Activity M 3.2% 11:27.45 5 101 214 5.34M 19.7M 21.2M 135M 0 kernel_tas 0.5% 11:05.34 36 2 2826 21.5M+ 0K 86.4M+ 827M+ 839 VolumeOpti 0.0% 10:48.70 1 23 70 548K 1.59M 5.77M 61.1M 388 MSN Messen 2.1% 7:46.22 8 203 309 5.60M 25.8M 22.7M 146M 361 SystemUISe 1.6% 6:51.10 3 224 362 3.88M 23.8M 24.9M+ 145M 1489 pmTool 2.6% 5:25.83 1 21 24 488K 436K 648K+ 27.1M 445 Microsoft 0.0% 2:45.74 7 294 382 20.5M 37.1M 46.4M 242M 862 Installer 0.0% 1:59.53 7 129 251 8.22M 20.5M 28.0M 163M 390 MSN Messen 1.6% 1:54.13 8 103 142 2.91M 7.16M 13.7M 108M 412 LaunchBar 0.0% 1:33.86 3 97 256 6.46M 21.2M 17.5M 138M 423 Mail 0.0% 1:07.02 13 349 397 7.30M 39.8M 32.9M 165M I dont understand why finder is using so many resources. Sam On Feb 15, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Arjan Bos wrote: > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium >