[chasg]

Hi All,

I've got a rev B G5 (2.0Ghz) and root is running netstat, which taking up to 90% of the CPUs (between 70% and 90%, but usually around 90%).

I'm not running netstat via the Network Utility, though I do have 5 or so windows open in Safari (but they're relatively simple sites, like MacNN).

I haven't encountered this behaviour on my G4/500 (both machines are running OSX 10.3.4)

If I force quit the app, it just starts up again. Restarting and logging out (which I'd rather not get into the habit of doing) solve the problem, for a while.

Why would netstat even be running, much less taking just about all of my CPU cycles?

TIA for any help,

Chas

[RevEvs]

I've had the same prob. I just quit it and it goes back to taking hardly any CPU...

[chasg]

Hi RevEvs, thanks for the info

I wonder what the heck it thinks it's doing? (I didn't just invest in my nice new dual processor Mac to have those processors max out all day long so that some small piece of software can look up ip addresses...)

[Chuckit]

Next time this happens, try looking in Activity Monitor with the "Show" menu set to "All processes, hierarchically." Then you can see what's invoking netstat. It could be useful to know.

[chasg]

Hi Chuckit,

So, what's "hierarchically" do then? (I see that hierarchically, well, puts processes in hierarchical order, but what's that order based on?).

I usually just show my own processes, based on CPU usage (I use MenuMeters to put up a graph of CPU usage in my menu bar, which is how I first noticed that netstat was doing strange things)

[entrox]

Originally posted by chasg:
So, what's "hierarchically" do then? (I see that hierarchically, well, puts processes in hierarchical order, but what's that order based on?).

If a process A spawns another process B, then B is a child of A. Every process is a child of 'init', which always is the first thing to get started after the kernel has been initialized. So, if something starts up 'netstat', it should appear as a child of the offending process in Activity Monitor.

[chasg]

great info, thanks! (how useful :-)

[RevEvs]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Next time this happens, try looking in Activity Monitor with the "Show" menu set to "All processes, hierarchically." Then you can see what's invoking netstat. It could be useful to know.

Cool. never noticed the hierachy option before.