[fisherKing]

checked this out today, was surprised to see:
inDesign, open (but not active, ie in the dock), was using between 18-66% of the cpu! other apps in the dock using cpu as well, even though not currently acitve.

i thought, especially with a lot of ram, i could leave most of my apps open; is this not so?

is it better to only open what i need, and quit apps not currently being used?

[fisherKing]

*bump* (once only, promise)


anyone know anything about this??

[DeathMan]

some apps do stuff in the background while they are running.

Does InDesign use that much CPU when there is a file open? or just when its open?

iDVD renders mpeg while just sitting there, I think. Other apps do similar things. Trying to lighten the load durring down time.

What other apps are taking cpu time?

Wait for say 5 minutes with indesign in the background, and see if its still taking up a lot of cpu cycles. maybe once it goes into swap, it'll sort of "sleep"

Do some experiments like that and see what happens.