10.3.3 and iChat

[Jason]

Ever Since upgrading to 10.3.3, iChat has been using 40-70% of my processor usage. Quite frankly its annoying because that combined with 30% safari and 30% iTunes, I can't get anything done... how is it an 800mhz computer cant chat, surf and listen to music at the same time without major major slowdowns?

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I'm sure that an 800MHz computer can handle all that just fine -- yours just has a minor problem somewhere that's making it difficult to do that... have you done all the placebo things like repairing permissions?

I could be that something went wrong with the upgrade. Did the optimization process finish all the way at the end of the update? Perhaps something is wrong with the disk -- Disk Utility should report a problem if that's so when you run a "Repair Volume."

Anything new to the machine besides the 10.3.3 update? Other software, hardware?

 

[Jason]

yeah ive done the normal stuffs, etc. pretty soon im gonna dump preferences and see what happens, currently im using 100%cpu 100% of the time... itunes takes up typically 20-30% while playing, and ichat takes up whatever is left of cpu usage, if im just listening to music and chatting thats 70-80%. if im doing other stuff its around 30%... that just doesnt make sense to me.