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Finder takes 90% of CPU
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dividend
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Mar 13, 2004, 10:42 AM
 
has anyone noticed that Finder sometimes begins to take 60-90% of the CPU (using the top-command in terminal). This makes my otherwise silent Alu 15' 1.25 ghz kick in all the fans and it becomes a bit loud. This happens irrespective of what I am doing, and I can relaunch finder but after a while it starts doing the same thing.

Does anyone know any solution to this?

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Mar 13, 2004, 12:23 PM
 
I'd check to see what stuff you've added to the system, because I have no such troubles.

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Mar 13, 2004, 12:40 PM
 
the thing is, i haven't added any stuff to the system - only normal apps like MS Office etc. it is very weird indeed. And it happens even when office is off.
     
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Mar 13, 2004, 12:49 PM
 
I haven't used Content Indexing in OS X, so I don't even remember where its settings are, but I wonder if it's turned on for your system?
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Mar 13, 2004, 12:53 PM
 
Find-by-content indexing is not done by the Finder. There's another process that does that (amazingly, that process is called ContentIndexing).

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Mar 14, 2004, 08:00 PM
 
This may help:

Check out this thread

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