[larrinski]

I created a new user(Larry) on my imac running Leopard, and migrated the data from the other user(call him Bob) from my Time Machine backup. Every so often I notice my CPU up at 100%(menu meters...) on the Larry account. Going into Activity Monitor, I see the process as "applet" with Bob's user name. The Bob account is not logged in. I kill the process, and everything is fine. Any idea what would be making this applet run? I have done a repair permissions, but it still happens...
Cheers

[Cold Warrior]

next time you see it, hit the get info option for the process and then click the tab 'open files and ports.' This may tell you what it normally does, or where it ties in to the system.

[larrinski]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

next time you see it, hit the get info option for the process and then click the tab 'open files and ports.' This may tell you what it normally does, or where it ties in to the system.

Thanks. I will give it a go, and see if that helps me figure it out.

[larrinski]

It says that it is a process called launchd. I guess that it is a process that launches at login? In Activity Monitor I can't find any tab that says open files and ports. I am running leopard. Maybe it is not there, or maybe I am blind...Probably the latter...

[adamfishercox]

Click "Inspect" and then in the resulting window, "Open files and ports."

AFAIK, launchd launches your programs.

[larrinski]

Originally Posted by adamfishercox 

Click "Inspect" and then in the resulting window, "Open files and ports."

AFAIK, launchd launches your programs.

Is it possible that I am not seeing it, as it is a different user that owns the process. When I click my own processes, I see the open files and ports, but not on this particular process. I only get Memory and Statistics. This different user is not logged in as well...

[JKT]

launchd is also the parent process for Rosetta apps. My suspicion would be that you have an incompatible PowerPC application on your system which is causing the CPU usage. I would use System Profiler to find Rosetta applications on your system (click the Software>Applications headings then sort the columns by Kind to put the PowerPC apps together... anything there that doesn't look as though it should be there?)

Fwiw, launchd = launch daemon which does indeed control the opening and closing of applications at system startup, iirc.

[larrinski]

I finally found the problem. Once the problem recreated itself, I logged into that user and went to Activity Monitor. It is SuperDuper trying to do a backup everynight from one media drive to a backup drive.

I will reinstall and set up a new backup in my new user.

Thanks for the information!