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CPU hog
Authored by: gatorparrots on Mar 23, '04 12:21:07AM
Well, while I was running it on one machine (an 800Mhz iMac G4 15" w/768MB RAM), I was wondering why the "optimization" step always takes so long at the end. You know, it runs fast up till about 80% then slows way down. So I opened Terminal and ran top. I had a bunch of regular things show up, most using very little or no CPU time. But there were two things using the bulk of the CPU time, the "Installer" and the "Update Prebinding" (the optimizer). What was amazing was that the Installer was taking almost 50% of my CPU time! Leaving the real work that Update Prebinding was doing with about 40%, and the rest for all the other misc tasks.

The likely suspect for this excessive CPU utilization is simply this: the barber pole animation of the Installer! http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030920075803942

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