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What is Ms Word doing?!
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I have a small document open in MS Word v.X and in the terminal it says that MS Word is going at about 10% CPU. But I'm not doing anything! Live word count is off. Any ideas? 
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What are you using to measure CPU usage?
top? ps aux? Process Viewer?
Also, bear in mind that in top, process names are truncated. You may not be seeing Word, but rather the Microsoft Office database daemon.
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wtf does MS office need a database daemon??
is it an error database or what??
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Originally posted by tooki:
What are you using to measure CPU usage?
top? ps aux? Process Viewer?
Also, bear in mind that in top, process names are truncated. You may not be seeing Word, but rather the Microsoft Office database daemon.
tooki
I typed top in the terminal. There were two processes named Microsoft. One was 0 % and the other was constantly 9-11%.
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Word has, in the past, sucked down processor cycles even when its not doing anything. I just opened a blank document though, and it stays close to zero.
Aside from live word count, if you have spell check and/or grammar checking on, those can suck up a lot of effort.
There may be other similar settings too - I'd check through preferences and see if you find anything suspicious.
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Originally posted by macintologist:
I typed top in the terminal. There were two processes named Microsoft. One was 0 % and the other was constantly 9-11%.
It's Word that is constantly using CPU on my computer. It's not at 10%, usually around 3-6%, but that's probably just a difference in computers.
At any rate, it's probably just shoddy Carbonizing by Microsoft. Loads of Carbon ports use a lot of processor time when idle.
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just opened another document and just having it automatically run the spelling check kept Word's CPU% around 10-15%, that's probably what you're seeing.
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Originally posted by voodoo:
wtf does MS office need a database daemon??
is it an error database or what??
The database daemon keeps track of Entourage calendar events, and pops up little reminder windows when it has been scheduled to do so.
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Same here, it doesn't drop under 10% even though I am not typing anything. Why does a word processor need so much CPU power?
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10%? You guys are lucky. Word, sitting idle in the background, regularly takes between 10-17% of my CPU on a 1Ghz Tibook (measured with Top).
This has been the case since Word came to OS X.
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