Comments on: My PowerBook's Tubes are Clogged http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Tue, 29 May 2012 14:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Cote' http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-597 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:58:53 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-597 Ooo…MacBook. I was at the Apple store dropping off the PowerBook and they sure did look nice.

]]> By: rick gregory http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-596 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:15:45 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-596 Cote, face it… you need a Macbook. Give into the Mastercard…

]]> By: Cote' http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-595 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:38:06 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-595 Joe: thanks for the tip. I've long wondered if turning off Spotlight will help. I'll have to figure out some way of monitoring it to test with and without. Perhaps my systems management background will finally pay off! ;>
Also, I think the number of apps I run at once has something to do with it: though, I've always run — as mray would say — "30 applications" at once…so it might be red herring.

]]> By: Joe Hildebrand http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-594 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:14:50 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-594 I've had issues in the past with spotlight indexing (mdimport). It doesn't look like it has a large amount of cpu time in that screen shot, but if you detect that it's an issue, turn off spotlight indexing on all drives (mdutil -i off /), remove the indexes (mdutil -E /), reboot for good measure, then turn spotlight back on (mdutil -i on /).

Leave the machine completely alone overnight, to allow the indexing to finish, and viola.

]]> By: Cote' http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-593 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:14:48 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-593 Thanks for all the tips. I've found some processes running the background — like MySQL — that I've killed and things seem slightly better.

]]> By: John Bachir http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-592 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:23:29 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-592 To have top on OS X sort processes in order of CPU usage do this:

top -us3

Also check out /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app

]]> By: rick gregory http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-591 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:07:29 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-591 Hold it, what am I thinking? If the tubes are clogged, it MUST be because someone sent you an internet… yeah, that's it… :)

]]> By: rick gregory http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-590 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:06:08 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-590 Is it the 1.0 beta or .89? Jeez, I just checked… on my Macbook it's taking 345. Of course Gizmo take 412 and my load averages are 1% of yours….

try running top so it sorts by CPU%:

top -ocpu -s 5 -n 20

]]> By: Cote' http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-589 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:28:43 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-589 I totally dig running as many apps as possible.
And, yeah, what's the deal with Adium?

]]> By: rick gregory http://redmonk.com/cote/2006/10/04/my-powerbooks-tubes-are-clogged/#comment-588 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:16:05 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=410#comment-588 mmm load is VERY high. Kill Adium (570M VM??). Does it do this right after restarting?? Any services running?

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