Situation: All 4 cores maxed out. Mac noticeably lagging. Attempted Solution: (Reveals wildly contradictory information.) Closed all applications Opened Activity Monitor Totaled all Process ID ...
I'm trying to understand why mdworker is always at 100% even when (apparently) not indexing. If I open Spotlight, there's no message telling me that a drive is being indexed. If I run fs_usage -w -f ...
See Handbrake CPU usage... What's wrong with my activity monitor?
The SystemUIServer process is taking 30% of my CPU. Searching around reveals a Snow Leopard daylight savings bug which is solved by removing the clock from the menubar. I am on Lion and I have tried ...
I heard my computer's fan spinning fast, so I checked Activity Monitor and saw that a process called InterCheck was using close to 96% CPU. What is this process and why's it using so much CPU? In the ...