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May 25th, 2009, 03:21 PM
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| need help diagnosing huge CPU usage
I have a Macbook Air, docked to a Cinema display, with a wireless keyboard and mouse and on a base station. Recently the mouse and keyboard started behaving sluggishly and after I open Firefox and load my iGoogle page and maybe one or two other tabs, pages slow to a crawl or don't load. Apps don't open well either I launched Activity Monitor to see what might be running - though I don't have clue what all those processes are - but notice my CPU Usage runs high, from 6o - 90% and all I have open is Firefox, Entourage, and Activity Monitor. I'm completely baffled as to what i going one and while I;d like to start deleting and quitting processes, that probably isn't a god idea. any suggestions?  |
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#2
May 25th, 2009, 03:33 PM
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Open Console (/Applications/Utilities) and look at what it's showing when it's slow and sluggy. You could also try some generic maintenance with e.g. OnyX.
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May 25th, 2009, 10:25 PM
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Plus open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and then you can see what is taking up CPU cycles.
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