Finder Using Too Many CPU Cycles?

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. I'm finding that bar-none, Finder is eating up all my spare CPU cycles. With no other user-launched applications, Finder creeps near 90% CPU usage (4 threads, only 14.91MB of Real Memory as reported by Activity Monitor). Didn't always have this as the case, and don't really know what triggered it (whether it was a Software Update or a service I had changed.... only been playing with Firewall and Apache settings).

. It wouldn't be bad if Finder was really acting like a (null) or idle process, but it seems to be slowing things down, as well as killing my battery life. Any ideas?

. I'm on a AlBook G4 12.1" 1GHz with 768MB RAM running 10.3.5 with Airport and Bluetooth (I've turned off both Airport and Bluetooth, yet still notice the higher Finder usage...)

. Thanks in advance!
 
That is a little strange. Have you tried rebooting the computer to see if the problem goes away? You might want to check what services are running at startup. Head on over to System preferences, Sharing and choose startup items. See what's listed and if there is anything you can disable.
 
Open the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder and see if anything else is running in the background.
 
-Viro:

. Yep, I've tried rebooting in the past, and that didn't fix it. For kicks, I rebooted again just now. Before doing that, I shut down all the services under share (which was only Remote Login), and left the Firewall up.

. After the reboot, the first and only thing I do is open Activity Monitor, and there it is, Finder grabbing upwards of 90% of the CPU cycles. Not sure what this means, but Activity Monitor reports roughly 75% System / 25% User when Finder is grabbing over 90% of the CPU cycles.... I don't really know how Activity Monitor is classifying Finder (which is listed as a process owned by my login account)

-Bobw:

. Nothing out of the ordinary is running in the background.... here's a list if you think it might help:

Activity Monitor, ATSServer, automount, blued, configd, coreservicesd, crashreporterd, cron, cupsd, DirectoryService, diskarbitrationd, distnoted, Dock, dynamic_pager, Finder, GmailStatus, iCalAlarmScheduler, init, ioupsd, kernel_task, KernelEventAgent, kextd, LiteSwitch X, loginwindow, lookupd, mach_init, mDNSResponder, netinfod, nfisod, notifyd, pbs, pmTool, postfix-watch, rpc.lockd, Safari, SecurityServer, syslogd, SystemUIServer, update, WindowServer

. When idling, Finder is taking >90% of the cycles, Activity Monitor is grabbing around 5%, and the remaining <5% from pmTool, WindowServer, kernel_task, and a few daemons popping in once in a while....
 
That is very strange. Do you remember the last thing you installed before this happened? Try and remember....
 
. Yeah, I agree it's strange...

. I've been wracking my brain about this, and what was happening around that time, as I know that's the usual set of questions "what are you running, what changed before it broke and now"

. I can't pin a specific time.... I noticed that things started getting sluggish and eventually I looked at Activity Monitor and noticed Finder eating up all the cycles. The only "strange" things that I was doing at the time was learning some AppleScript.... specifically, I was trying to execute some osascript calls to iTunes. Way before (I think way before), I was learning my way around with Apache and SSH..... that's about all I can recall :-/
 
Use the Activity Monitor to kill blued and reboot and see if that helps.

While you have Activity Monitor open, and set on All Processes, click the CPU tab and go to the Print Menu and save as PDF. You can attach that to your post so we can see it.
 
hmm, maybe a hacker is running a program on your computer or something. I would try and reformat and install. Just do a backup first
 
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