[jamesa]

Hi there,

I'm experiencing this weird problem, and I'm hoping somebody might be able to help me.

The Finder is literally hogging my CPU. It's taking as much as it can get. It's not set to a high priority, so it is sharing, but my machine is getting quite warm because idle is never allowed to happen. Also, it takes a while for other tasks to get access to the CPU, so I'm frequently getting pauses doing stuff.

Has anyone else encountered something like this before? Normally if something is taking up heaps of CPU time it's easy to track down, but the finder... I've tried logging out/logging back in again, and I've looked through my system preferences to see if there's anything that might account for the sudden change but can't see anything.

Help much appreciated! This is driving me nuts!

-- james

[SMacTech]

Have you tried another account to see if the problem exists there? If it does, then it is a system wide problem and not user specific.
Do you have any 3rd party haxies installed?

[jamesa]

Originally posted by SMacTech:
Have you tried another account to see if the problem exists there? If it does, then it is a system wide problem and not user specific.
Do you have any 3rd party haxies installed?

logging in with another user account ::hits head::

stock standard troubleshooting, and I didn't think of it. Anyway, simply by doing this the problem resolved itself. Very strange.

Thanks for the hand, SMacTech

-- james

[awaspaas]

sudo fs_usage in the terminal will let you know if anything's going on with the filesystem. a good troubleshooter.

[jamesa]

Originally posted by awaspaas:
sudo fs_usage in the terminal will let you know if anything's going on with the filesystem. a good troubleshooter.

useful tip, thanks!