[Sakino]

CPU usage is up big time since I updated this morning. I had safari, adium, and mail.app open and my usage was at 90% with 512 mb of ram on my 1.25 gighz al pb. As I have used it today, I noticed it is higher then normal for my normal usage throughout the day. It seems to peak for 5 seconds, then drop down to 20%. These are still high, from my observations before upgrading.
Has anyone had this problem? Can anyone suggest a way to fix it?

[HouseSold]

I can't and couldn't take the fan cycling brought on by the update and reverted back to 10.3.2 today. What a pain but worth it.

Maybe 10.3.3 is good for desktops, but not good for turning a laptop into a cooktop.

Also your CPU usage will equate to less battery, especially when the fans roar.

I hope Apple's listening.

My Powerbooks cool once more.

[Maflynn]

No problem on mine,
What does top say (within the terminal), if you use top -ocpu (I think that's the correct parm) then it will sort by cpu usage.

Mike

[Sakino]

Originally posted by HouseSold:
I can't and couldn't take the fan cycling brought on by the update and reverted back to 10.3.2 today. What a pain but worth it.

Maybe 10.3.3 is good for desktops, but not good for turning a laptop into a cooktop.

Also your CPU usage will equate to less battery, especially when the fans roar.

I hope Apple's listening.

My Powerbooks cool once more.

Can you please tell me about the easiest way torevert back to 10.3.2
?

[Maflynn]

Originally posted by Sakino:
Can you please tell me about the easiest way torevert back to 10.3.2
?

I believe the only way to revert back is to reinstall panther, there is no uninstall on the updates.

Mike

[HouseSold]

I always save a disk image on cd of every update.

The easiest way to revert is probably install from the Panther cd's and select archive and install.(only choice allowed since Panther is Version 10.3 and 10.3.3 supercedes Panther)

I then did version 10.3.1 and 10.3.2 and stopped.

My only conflict was Safari since the latest version remained installed (at least prefs did) Went to Apple.com and loaded the earlier version and then updated Safari.(more than one version offered)

All is cool again-literally

[tooki]

Originally posted by Maflynn:
No problem on mine,
What does top say (within the terminal), if you use top -ocpu (I think that's the correct parm) then it will sort by cpu usage.

Mike

it's actually top -u

tooki

[typoon]

Processes: 58 total, 3 running, 55 sleeping... 190 threads 14:18:14
Load Avg: 0.27, 0.19, 0.15 CPU usage: 12.0% user, 11.2% sys, 76.8% idle
SharedLibs: num = 113, resident = 31.5M code, 3.34M data, 10.8M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 7608, resident = 139M + 19.0M private, 116M shared
PhysMem: 65.4M wired, 137M active, 252M inactive, 455M used, 56.6M free
VM: 4.13G + 80.3M 26708(0) pageins, 47(0) pageouts

This is mine currently with iCHAT, Safari, Mail (checks every minute), KDX, Frogblast, Launchbar, Temp Monitor and Xcharge.

[Sakino]

Processes: 47 total, 2 running, 45 sleeping... 137 threads 15:50:02
Load Avg: 0.42, 0.30, 0.19 CPU usage: 17.7% user, 7.1% sys, 75.2% idle
SharedLibs: num = 112, resident = 25.9M code, 2.84M data, 8.08M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 7402, resident = 135M + 7.92M private, 78.3M shared
PhysMem: 60.2M wired, 178M active, 167M inactive, 406M used, 105M free
VM: 3.44G + 80.3M 154295(0) pageins, 141525(0) pageouts

This is with adium, mail.app, and safari open. As I said it jumps around a lot, sometimes spiking into the the 70-90 range.

[Maflynn]

Originally posted by tooki:
it's actually top -u

tooki

Actually tookie top -ocpu does work.

Not sure if its a depracated command, but hey it does sort by useage.

Mike