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    Something is running in the background

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Lyanowu, May 9, 2010.

  1. Lyanowu

    Lyanowu Notebook Consultant

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    Few weeks ago I brought the WD blue 640GB, and lately swapped it out and put the old Hard drive back in because the WD was making too much noises. AFter I putting the old one back in here, the OS X starts running at the temperature of 56-58 degree C. The CPU is also running something such that it's used percentage is jumping around 10% and 20 % constantly. I start using it right now, and the upper left corner is getting warmer without running any significant job. What is wrong in here? :(
     
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    akin_t Notebook Evangelist

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    How about opening the activity monitor and finding out?

    When you find what it is ... You prevent it from running on startup.
     
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  3. Lyanowu

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    I tried and the only thing that uses most of the CPU is the dashboardClient.DashboardClient is using 23 of CPU. I don't know what that number means but I can't stop it from running and haven't installed any widget lately. I have no idea what is happening in dashboardclient.
     
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    Well I cannot tell you without having more details. Of course I'm a recent convert myself ... But task managers work the same way in any OS.

    At any rate, I'm guessing that means your dashboard client is using 23% of the CPU, that's really unusual. How about just disabling it from running on startup if you haven't already.
     
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    Something... is running in the background. Something so terrible no-one has seen it and lived.
     
    lackofcheese, May 9, 2010
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    Or just make a clear re-install. IT takes about 20 min or so and you know for sure if its sw problem or hw.
     
    vampyren, May 9, 2010
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    Try installing istat pro, it's a widget that shows CPU usage on every thing running as well as temps. I had an addon for firefox that failed and was running my temps to 70. iStat Pro atleast got me to the right app causing problem.

    Now if you using IM and other internet app they can constantly poll. And if your running Windows it's goes nuts polling for stuff.
     
    blue68f100, May 9, 2010
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    if Dashboard is doing it.. its probably some widget you installed on Dashboard... that you need to remove. Me I just disable dashboard altogether.. I hate widgets.
     
    doh123, May 10, 2010
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    I think I found the problem. It was a small bubble shooting widget I download few months ago. Don't know why it gave me the problem after it was installed for months.
     
    Lyanowu, May 11, 2010
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    lol, the hell?
     
    ajreynol, May 11, 2010
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    Lyanowu, May 11, 2010
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