[Jupeman]

I am running 10.3.3 and whenever I fire up iChat it consumes an inordinate amount of processor time on my 2Ghz G5, like 30-40% per processor at least. Anyone else experience this?

[cybergoober]

A buddy of mine noticed this behavior a while back. He said he seemed to notice it happen when people changed their status (mainly from "available" to "offline" etc). I asked him if he had iChat set to show offline buddies. He said he did. I had him un-check "Show Offline Buddies" under the "View" menu. Since then he hasn't complained about iChat CPU usage, so I can only assume that fixed it for him.

cheers. let me know if this works for you…

P.S. - On AIM my screenname is: osxrulz

[lenox]

Also, ask any of the buddies you regularly talk to if they have animated buddy icons. iChat only shows the first frame of the animation, treating it like a static one, but for some reason it is eating cpu cycles when dealing with them anyhow.

[Grrr]

Originally posted by lenox:
Also, ask any of the buddies you regularly talk to if they have animated buddy icons. iChat only shows the first frame of the animation, treating it like a static one, but for some reason it is eating cpu cycles when dealing with them anyhow.

Zactly..

Kind of ridiculous that some poxy Spectrum 48k style annimated gifs(sprites) can bog a modern Mac down so much.. And with how many gigaflops of power!? Same issue with this kind of thing in Safari also..

PS, wrong forum

[RooneyX]

Originally posted by Grrr:
Zactly..

Kind of ridiculous that some poxy Spectrum 48k style annimated gifs(sprites) can bog a modern Mac down so much.. And with how many gigaflops of power!? Same issue with this kind of thing in Safari also..

PS, wrong forum

Hehe. My cousin takes the peepee out of me whenh e says 'You buy a 3 grand computer so you can load up VPC to play Solitaire'