[adamberti]

Ok, heres the deal... I have this process that seems to start hogging my processor when I leave the computer alone for a while. And if I goto process viewer to get the id to kill it, it seems to go back to being dormant, but only sometimes. Othertimes I'll keep working and it will stay there hoggying cycles. The name of this thing is '1.2.4' I have no idea where it comes from or what its doing because if I do kill it, I dont notice anything different on my machine, nothing fails to work. The only thing I can think of is that is has to do with 10.2.4 cause its only happened since I intalled that. It's user is me, not root.

Any suggestion on how to find whats turning the beast on? Is there a general way to find out what process belongs to what app or part of the system?

[malvolio]

I've got it, too, although it seems to stay at 0.00% CPU usage. Process Viewer says that its parent process is the Window Server.
No idea why it's hogging CPU cycles on your machine. At least you can kill it without harm (apparently).

[macmike42]

"1.2.4" is version 1.2.4 of Meterologist. Grab the newest version (beta of 1.2.5) from this thread. It fixes the name bug, and a couple crashing and performance bugs, plus adds easy-to-customize icons. If you are still experiencing problems, you should let Ghoser777 know about it, since he's shooting for an Apple Software Design Award.

BTW, all GUI processes are "children" of the Window Manager. A process is a child of whatever process launched it. You might think that would be the Finder, or (for example) LaunchBar, but launching a GUI application actually just sends a message to the Window Manager telling it to prepare some items needed by every GUI application and launch that executable.