rendragnala
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About the time I upgraded my Dual G5 to Tiger I noticed that my % CPU usage was going through the roof. Here's what I know about the problem:
1a. The process name is called "cron" and is owned by root.
1b. It's parent process is launchd
1c. This process has no children.
2. If I kill the process, it is automatically restarted.
3. It's taking up between 95-98% of my cpu power.
4a. A check of crontab -e for either my user or root reveals no jobs running/scheduled.
4b. I've checked the following cron related files:
/var/cron/tabs/<my-user-name> and /etc/crontab. Both are empty with the /etc/crontab containing a note to check the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Here I found a plist file that points to the var/cron/tabs, but I see no sheduled jobs in any crontabs.
5. This process starts up near the beginning of the machine's boot up. I've removed all start up items and it still runs.
I am probably a intermediate computer user (mac user since early '90's). I frequently use the terminal to do software builds etc., but would only consider myself a unix beginner.
Any help tracking figuring how to reclaim my processing power would be HIGHLY appreciated.
1a. The process name is called "cron" and is owned by root.
1b. It's parent process is launchd
1c. This process has no children.
2. If I kill the process, it is automatically restarted.
3. It's taking up between 95-98% of my cpu power.
4a. A check of crontab -e for either my user or root reveals no jobs running/scheduled.
4b. I've checked the following cron related files:
/var/cron/tabs/<my-user-name> and /etc/crontab. Both are empty with the /etc/crontab containing a note to check the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Here I found a plist file that points to the var/cron/tabs, but I see no sheduled jobs in any crontabs.
5. This process starts up near the beginning of the machine's boot up. I've removed all start up items and it still runs.
I am probably a intermediate computer user (mac user since early '90's). I frequently use the terminal to do software builds etc., but would only consider myself a unix beginner.
Any help tracking figuring how to reclaim my processing power would be HIGHLY appreciated.
