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    SOLUTION FOUND: hot pb's, cpu=100%, crashes, etc.

    glad to possibly be of help, lieut. Try running your computer for a day or 2 w/o Spotlight on...i.e. leave your HD in the Privacy pane so that there is no index. Also, there's a fuller way to turn off Spotlight through the Terminal. Check macfixit.com, or tuaw.com
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    Recovered files in trash

    interesting... I was initially under the impression this had something to do with Word crashing. I have two folders, one "Recovered Files," one "Recovered Files #1" in my trash. What's interesting is that I have the PDFBroswerPlugin installed in Camino and it put .pdf I'd opened earlier...
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    SOLUTION FOUND: hot pb's, cpu=100%, crashes, etc.

    Good find, Mikuro. I'd also seen that the MD processes were supposed to be related to Spotlight. I refused to believe the process "Update" was related to Spotlight and thus I waited a long time before trying to mess with Spotlight as my PB's problem As I guessed, my computer restarts like...
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    SOLUTION FOUND: hot pb's, cpu=100%, crashes, etc.

    Hello Forum-- I previously posted in "Tiger eats 100% CPU" about a problem I had and that many other Tiger upgraders seem to be having. For some reason, I've noticed an especially large number posters with 12" PowerBooks having these problems, but that may just be a coincidence. Basically...
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    Tiger eats 100% CPU

    I gave my specs: a 12" PB 1.33 ghz w/ 768 mb of memory. I entered Macintosh HD as a folder that Spotlight shouldn't index and I was not able to crash my computer after that. So, update seems to be related to keeping the Spotlight index up to date. The only problem with disabling Spotlight is...
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    Tiger eats 100% CPU

    I think this process gets out of control for me because the hard drive is being used continually for Virtual Memory. Thus when running a lot of programs and moving swiftly around my computer, there is a lot of virtual memory in use. I have 768 mb of physical RAM on a 12" 1.33 ghz PB, and I...
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    Tiger eats 100% CPU

    I'm having this same problem. The "rogue" process seems to be something called "update." It's owner is root. It seems to take up the extra processing power that I'm not using, so it never totally gets in the way of other processes. However, it presents a problem to have my processor running...
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