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MacOS X 10.2.3 being extremely CPU greedy
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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I woke up my Mac this morning the usual way by tapping the mouse button, to find the CPU monitor showing 100% CPU usage. Everything was lagging as hell. So I open up Terminal, and run top -u after waiting for 5 minutes for the window to show up. Shows that kernel tasks are taking up about half of the CPU usage, with the window manager coming in second with about 20%. I try to reboot, but after 15 minutes it was still shutting everything down so I just hit the reset button. Now, half an hour later, the thing has finally booted up and the CPU usage has not come down at all.
This is extremely annoying. Does anyone have any idea of what might be causing this, and how I would fix this?
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Originally posted by Evinyatar:
I woke up my Mac this morning the usual way by tapping the mouse button, to find the CPU monitor showing 100% CPU usage. Everything was lagging as hell. So I open up Terminal, and run top -u after waiting for 5 minutes for the window to show up. Shows that kernel tasks are taking up about half of the CPU usage, with the window manager coming in second with about 20%. I try to reboot, but after 15 minutes it was still shutting everything down so I just hit the reset button. Now, half an hour later, the thing has finally booted up and the CPU usage has not come down at all.
This is extremely annoying. Does anyone have any idea of what might be causing this, and how I would fix this?
I would guess you've got a virus... that's crazy... I'd do a complete clean install, but that's just me.
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I just found out that it's my firewire VST hard disk (one of the portable ones). I think it died on me  It won't mount and when I plug it in the CPU usage maxes out, when I unplug it it goes back to normal. I can't hear it spin up anymore either.
I hope it's the bridge that broke and not the actual drive.
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Originally posted by Evinyatar:
I just found out that it's my firewire VST hard disk (one of the portable ones). I think it died on me It won't mount and when I plug it in the CPU usage maxes out, when I unplug it it goes back to normal. I can't hear it spin up anymore either.
I hope it's the bridge that broke and not the actual drive.
I've got one of those! Sorry to hear that!
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by Evinyatar:
I just found out that it's my firewire VST hard disk
Damned OS X 10.2.3, it shouldn't have tried so hard to mount the defective drive.
Good thing you didn't follow Tyler's advice and had thought you had a virus, eh!
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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what's a 'virus' ? 
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Sounds great! Where can I get one? 
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