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A possible fix for high Finder CPU usage
Authored by: zo219 on Dec 14, '04 02:18:49AM

Funny, I've just had several weird CPU-hog-and-hangs in a row . . of a kind I'd never seen before: the SystemUIServer was hung.

Force-quitting the process cured the problem, of course. But the tasks where it hung have all been very routine . . . and reading this thread, I'm thinking something was introduced in the recent Update.

I'm an experienced user with a well-maintained machine; if I've never seen it before - and others are having similar - it belongs to Apple.

(Yes, you can safely force quit the SUI in Activity Monitor.)



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A possible fix for high Finder CPU usage
Authored by: landis on Dec 14, '04 11:21:26AM

Every once in a while I do get a SystemUIServer hang and the whole computer seems to slow down. I don't know exactly what the SystemUIServer is, but I've done force quits and it restarts and everything is fine - for a while.

I'm running the MenuMeters Haxie under OS X.3.5. I don't know if this may be the cause, but it does help quite often to determine when the system is hanging and when I should be opening the Activity Monitor to see what's going on.

Just a side note: I've got several JPEGs on my desktop. My computer has oddly seemed to get slower and slower over the past year or so, but I don't have a clear cut case of this JPEG bug. Taking them off the desktop doesn't speed things up and the processor isn't constantly running at much past 20% when everything is idle (playing iTunes, checking email, browsing the web).

To back up my thought that my computer has slowed down - SETI@Home (which I only turn on at night, manually) used to take about 10 hours per work unit, now it's closer to 15-18. And the whole machine generally feels a bit sluggish (during the day, without SETI running). Any suggestions? Delete those three prefs mentioned in the 'hint'?



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not-a-haxie
Authored by: sjk on Dec 19, '04 02:54:11AM

MenuMeters isn't a haxie but Unsanity's Menu Master is.



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