Originally Posted By: Hal Itosis
How about determining which process is hogging the CPU?
The built-in tool for that would be Activity Monitor. [sort by CPU]


Thanks and okay.

Here's the CPU usage list with both Real and Virtual memory use figures.

223 Activity Monitor 16.39 MB 971.53 MB Intel
122 AirPort Base Station Agent .98 MB 891.66 MB Intel
129 ATSServer 3.52 MB 630.52 MB Intel
128 Dock 9.95 MB 897.98 MB Intel
133 Finder 7.53 MB 922.37 MB Intel
144 iTunes Helper 2.32 MB 848.64 MB Intel

102 launchd 520.00 KB 585.74 MB Intel

45 loginwindow 4.95 MB 866.99 MB Intel
100 mdworker 3.59 MB 600.51 MB Intel
145 Microsoft AU Daemon 9.30 MB 924.15 MB PowerPC

132 pboard 588.00 KB 586.63 MB Intel

153 Safari 33.15 MB 961.82 MB Intel
126 Spotlight 4.00 MB 860.40 MB Intel
131 SystemUIServer 9.83 MB 925.83 MB Intel
127 UserEventAgent 2.69 MB 589.53 MB Intel

PS - Sorry about the data display. I don't know how to make columns in our FTM editor.

Last edited by ryck; 12/28/09 11:24 AM.

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