10.4.5 update causing CPU spikes and extreme slowness

I have a 20" iMac G5 (the model right before the one with the built-in iSight came out). I just updated to 10.4.5 and I'm now seeing spikes in the kernel_task process that completely overtake my system. Everything else gets a spinning wheel when this happens and even iTunes music stops playing. It happens every few seconds for a split second and then it stops. It makes my system almost unusable. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Is there any way I can revert to 10.4.4?
Thanks,
Carl Youngblood

Here is what I did to fix the problem:
1) Bought a 300GB external hard drive (w/ firewire interface so that my imac could boot from it).
2) Downloaded SuperDuper.
3) Backed up everything to my external hard drive.
4) Reinstalled OS X on top of my current installation, preserving all user data.
5) After I got my system set back up the way it was before but BEFORE INSTALLING ANY UPDATES, I ran SuperDuper again to back up everything in case something got hosed after updating.
6) Then I installed all the updates again. This time everything worked fine and I did not experience the problem again.
Not the easiest solution but I feel a lot safer now that I have a backup of my data.

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The problem on my Intel Mac mini with external Klipsch speakers (two mid-range/high and a subwoofer) is REAL obvious as the system emits a hum like a Spinal Tap amplifier turned up to #11 when 10.4.10 powers down the audio circuitry
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Here's what I sent to Apple tech support:
Guys/Gals (OS X Engineers):
Concerning the Snap, Crackle Pop Audio problem in the 10.4.10 update:
Please. Just do the right thing and fix the audio.
There is no need to power cycle the audio subsystem to save .0005 amps on the laptop line.
And then to make your Mac mini/iMac/other desktop users have to put up with it when using AC power is ridiculous.
Put the audio subsystem back like it was in 10.4.9 and let the laptop battery freaks looking for mini-amp savings get a "work-a-round".
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Libby,
Backup is unable to make a restorable by Disk Utility backup. You can restore pieces of the software as outlined in my FAQ about backing up user data:
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But to be able to restore a backup with Disk Utility, you need a cloning utility to have made the backup.
I suggest starting a new thread here, where someone else could help you out better:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=752&start=0
First off, you'll get a wider audience who may be able to solve your problem. Secondly, responses to you won't confuse the original poster with solutions that don't apply to them. And thirdly, you'll know for certain whether or not a response applies to you.

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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) (Verified)
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1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
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Disk Information: ℹ️
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S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / [Startup]: 318.84 GB (148.50 GB free)
Encrypted AES-XTS UnlockedConverting
Core Storage: disk0s2 319.21 GB Online
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
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Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
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Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
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SMC: Path: /Library/StartupItems/SMC
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Wifi unstable and extremely slow on my Aspire V Nitro VN7-591G-7.

Hi again ! My previous problem is now solved. But now I have issues with my wifi. The wifi works perfectly on other devices but on my Aspire V Nitro VN7-591G-7, it's just impossible to do anything on the internet... I've read it's a common problem and there are solutions. What steps should I follow in order to solve this ? I'm running Windows 8.1 by the way. I really like the performances of this computer so I wish to get rid of this stupid problem ! Thank you very much.

Can you describe "unstable and extremely slow" in more detail. Are you connected to the 5 GHz band of your wireless router or are you connected to the 2.4 GHz band? Are you having problems with all websites or just a few? Which web browser are you using? IE or chrome or firefox? What is the model # of your wireless router? Is your wireless router supplied by your ISP? Or did you buy it retail? What BIOS version is currently installed on you laptop? What BIOS version is designated as the latest version on Acer's website? Does the problem occur when you use other people's wifi such as a friend, relative or neighbor? Have you tested it somewhere besides your home? Does Acer's website list an updated wireless driver for your computer? http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

In-place update of web service causes CPU spike

I've done many in-place updates of my production service with no issues. Today when I ran an update the CPU spiked on both instances to around 99.6% for almost an hour. The CPU eventually came down to its normal range while under the expected load from the
service. I didn't see any requests fail, but response times were up significantly.
I ran another in-place update later in the day and the same thing happened again. Currently my production service is pegged at over 99% for over an hour. Thankfully this is a slow time for the service, otherwise this could be a real mess for me.
Before each in-place update I deploy to the staging environment and everything is working as expected (there's nothing on the staging environment before as I delete it every time the production environment is successfully updated). As a test I did the same
in-place update on the staging environment and that environment has been at 50% utilization for an hour now. It starts as soon as the update takes effect for each instance (one instance pegs a couple minutes before the other).
I have profiling turned on for this service, and when I go to look at the profiling report I generally get these messages:
5:51:24 PM - Connecting to the Profiling agent on the VM instance
5:51:27 PM - The Profiling agent is preparing to process the request
5:51:28 PM - Preparing the Profiling logs on the VM instance
5:51:42 PM - Uploading the logs from the VM instance to the Windows Azure storage account.
5:51:43 PM - Profiling log request failed. Details: Profiling agent failed to upload log snapshot to Windows Azure storage account.
I'm not sure if it's related to profiling or not, but I'm wondering if there is something broken with the in-place update process in Azure?
Any help is appreciated.

As further investigation I deleted the staging environment, re-deployed to it, and that worked just fine, CPU levels were normal. I did the VIP swap, and my production environment is back to normal.
The staging environment (old production env) continued on it's spike for one of the instances. I checked and the instance that isn't spiked is the one I successfully got a profiling report on. I'm going to wait an hour or so and run a profiling report on
the other instance to see if that also gets the instance back to normal CPU times.

DW FTP is slow and causes CPU Spike

Does anyone know why DW causes the CPU to jump up when it is
performing FTP operations? I'm new to DW and maybe this is normal,
but it shouldn't be. When I perfrom FTP activities, DW usually
takes up about 60-70% of the CPU???
Also, why is the FTP client so slow?
Dreamweaver takes so much longer than other FTP clients. I
compared it's usage to SmartFTP, FileZilla, and Windows built in
FTP, and Dreamweaver is so slow on a magnitude of 20x - 30x. For a
quick test I tried to pull down a directory using dreamweaver. I
have all the files local already, so I told DW not to overwrite the
files...so you would think it should speed through all the files
and realize that they are all dups and not download anything, for a
directory with 15 files in it, i would think this FTP operation
should take about 2 seconds. but it takes dreamweaver about 4
minutes to complete this, all my other FTP clients can figure this
out in under 5 seconds, and they don't need to spike the CPU to do
it.
A quick search on the web tells me that I am not the only
person with these problems.
I really hope Adobe plans on fixing the FTP problems.
Technical details:
Dreamweaver CS3.
Windows Vista SP1, 4GB ram, Fujitsu T4220

I've had a related, ongoing problem with CS3 running up the
CPU and acting
slow for just about every operation for no apparent reason.
It goes in
surges, and just acts like molasses half the time, very
annoying. It is to
the point that I really don't use CS3, I use DW8, but try to
use CS3 here
and again to see if it has started working or if there is
some patch
released. This is on my XP workstation at work, and my Vista
workstation at
home. Both systems run CS3 slow enough that I just don't use
CS3. This has
been going on for over a year, since I got my copy of CS3.
Too bad really, because I am tasked with approving CS3 for
use by the rest
of our WEB team and I haven't been able to do that, so we
continue to use
DW8. We are missing out on Spry integration and are slowly
switching over
to Eclipse and Aptana instead. I think that if the CPU bug
isn't fixed, CS3
will be the version that has us switch away entirely. The
only hope seems to
be if they release the next version of DW before we can
completely switch
away. We are a smallish state agency and only have 8 DW
licenses, but
that's seven licenses they missed out on the upgrade path
with unless this
is fixed (mine is the only upgraded so far). It just isn't
useable in its
present state. :-\
"HenryHill" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> This has been a problem with Dreamweaver for a while
now. I would have
> thought
> that Adobe would have fixed the FTP issues, or at least
improved upon them
> by
> now.
>
> One of the things you can try is to disable the
"Maintain synchronization
> information" checkbox in the "Remote Info" section of a
site definition.
> although, you won't get the benefit of synchronization
in Dreamweaver, but
> you
> will get speed improvements, and your computer's CPU
won't spike and sound
> like
> a jumbo jet taking off every time you perform a FTP
operation.
>
> You can also try submitting a bug report as "John T
Smith" recommended,
> but I
> can pretty much guarantee you it won't do any good. We
have submitted
> many
> reports over the years and never heard anything.
>
> Your best bet is to go with an external FTP client such
as FileZilla
> (free!).
> You get the benefit of multiple connections so your
uploads/downloads are
> faster, plus it gives you a lot more feedback as the
FTPing is occuring,
> such
> as transfer speed, how many files have transfered, how
many are left, any
> errors. it will also auto detect if passive FTP is
needed, you can pause,
> stop, restart, it also shows you the exact ftp commands
that it is sending
> and
> what the responses are from the server. These are things
that Adobe
> should
> have included in the FTP client. As far as most of us
are concerned, the
> FTP
> client built into Dreamweaver is in the dark ages
compared to modern day
> FTP
> clients.
>
> Their are a lot of benefits to the built in client, but
for us, the
> negatives
> out weigh the positives.
>
>
>

History of Processes - how to view which process caused CPU spike?

We have been facing an issue with a domain controller (Windows Server 2008 R2, VM on ESX 5.0) over the past week. Around twice a day, the CPU spikes at 100% for about 10 minutes. We notice because we receive an alert from the hypervisor, but by the time we can actually log in to check what process is causing it, it would have come back to normal. There doesn't seem to be any pattern re times, its quite erratic. Sometimes at 08:00AM, sometimes at 01:00AM, 4:00AM, 7:00PM, etc. Also nothing in the Event Logs.
It's not a big deal but I just want to know if I can somehow record theprocess history, to see which process was stuck at 100% at a certain time. I know about Performance Monitor (perfmon) but it doesn't really meet my requirements since it doesn't record the actual processes (e.g. AV.exe, svchost.exe, chrome.exe, etc).Any...
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You might check with your apps' developers to see if they support AppleScript, Automator, or other scripting languages that might be used for this. Some programs have built-in macro and scripting options that can be set up in a built-in editor or run in a built-in command-line environment of sorts, while others supply libraries for external scripting with AppleScript and others.
As for live tracing of a program's commands, most that you use will be coded in a low level language like C, C++, Java, or Objective-C, which are compiled and run in binary machine code as opposed to an interpreted language (one that does not need compiling to run), as is the case with most scripting languages (shell scripts, AppleScript, Matlab, etc.).
For the most part, the only options you have for "tracing" a program's functions are to monitor output that it might log to the console. You can see this by opening the console, but the output here is diagnostic in nature and is programmatically limited to what the programmers have intended be output (ie, things like warnings and errors, as opposed to every action the program is taking). You can also use the Terminal to directly launch a program's executable so it is hosted in the Terminal shell. This will give you direct access to all of the program's output, as opposed to that only intended for logging in the Console, but it is still not the same as a full output of the commands and routines the program is performing.
Some of Apple's developer tools can allow you to better monitor a program's functions, but these are intended for developers, and have some requirements, and will not allow you to use any results for productivity automation.

Cloud App Discovery - Agent causing CPU spike

I'm excited to deploy the Cloud App Discovery agent more broadly in our organization. However, when pushing the agent to about 40 test workstations, we discovered that it caused a serious problem with 2 workstations. The agent seemed to cause
a CPU spike, to the point that the workstation was unusable. Once the workstation was restarted the problem happened again. We ultimately, uninstalled the agent.
Are others having problems with the agent causing performance issues on workstations?

Hi,
I have deployed the agent on approx. 20 HP laptops. So far everything has been fine.
Check the event logs to see if there is any useful pointers.
Check installed programs to see if there is something unique about these 2 desktops versus the others. Remove any that are not needed or not in Company Policy.
Check AV is up to date and not conflicting with agent.
Run a belarc report (http://www.belarc.com/) on one working desktop then on one faulty one. Compare to check for any differences
Cheers
Amjad

ITunes causing CPU spikes

Ever since I upgraded to the most recent version of iTunes, my laptop has gone extremely slow when iTunes is running (i'm now using winamp). The CPU usage spikes from 80% up to 95-100%.
My music is stored on an external hard drive, the laptop is an Inspiron 9100 (Pentium 4, 3.20GHz, 1024MB RAM) and had no problems whatsoever before upgrading.
I did a complete wipe of my laptop a couple of days ago and all other applications are running much faster, but i've downloaded iTunes again and the same problem occurs. I've also tried downgrading the version to see if that helps but it doesn't.
Anyone suggest anything or experience similar?

I have to agree that there is some major problem with iTunes - I'm totally unimpressed having never used it before and just having bought my first ipod.
Windows XP SP2, 1.6 Ghz, 2Gb RAM
Insert any music CD and RIP via iTunes = 100% CPU utilization
Insert any music CD and RIP via Windows Media Player = 40% CPU utilization
So I need a dedicated machine to support the ripping of my music? What a joke.

K8N Neo2 Platinum - RAID Array Causes CPU Spikes!

I got my RAID array set up.
When I transfer files to it, my CPU usage (kernerl level) shoot up. It's around 100%, and it slows my system way down.
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum.
RAID 0 using SATA ports 3 and 4.
I'm transferring files from my current windows installation to partitions on the raid array, so I can install windows on the array after removing the old drives.
I can transfer data fine, but using the array causes huge cpu usage which slows the rest of my system down a LOT.

Quote from: MurdoK on 19-April-06, 16:40:06
Hello !
Which SATA / Raid Driver did you install ? The ones from the nforce driver package provided by nvidia, or the original MSI driver ?
Go here:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_detail.php?UID=607&kind=1
And download and install the SATA RAID Driver, make a backup of your Data first.
Greetz
Well, I have seen this post and it makes me wonder what are the differences between nforce chipset driver packages and the MSI ones if any? Thanks in advance.

IMac, update causing black screen and randomly powers off...?

I've seen many comment on this with few solutions. It had never occurred until yesterday afternoon after the latest security update for Mavericks, 2014-005 v.1, was loaded and the system was rebooted. After that moment the mac has been unusable. It will start and after user log on, will black screen, sometimes still running and other times instantly powered off. I have followed resetting the PRAM, and SMC procedures with no change and have booted into safe mode in order to examine the system and it is just as unstable there. The times I have gotten it booted and running, attempting to access an earlier Time Machine backup, but before I can start reload it goes black. The same goes while trying to check the sleep mode and security settings. Unless this is an amazing coincidence, I believe the latest update has caused this problem and has for others as I have seen on many conversations. Can this be uninstalled or does the drive need to get wiped and then reload from the Time Machine?
Thanks.
iMac, A1311 21.5" Mavericks 10.9.5 Update 2014-005 v.1

Well, initial call into Apple Care and one answer. "We have no idea what it is, we can get you an appointment at a Genius Bar in 4 days!" 4 days?! Seriously? At least they were kind enough to only put me on hold for 30 minutes, AND then transferred me to a "Sr. Care Specialist" who basically blew smoke up my arse only to tell me the same thing... why transfer me at all?

Macbook pro running 6.8 has wifi cutting out and extremely slow

My macbook Pro recently started having issues where the Airport says the wifi signal is full, yet is extremely slow(.5mbps compared to 30 that i normally get.)
It also cuts out but says it is still connected, but chrome, safari, itunes all cannot connect even to google.
So far I have tried,
Deleteing the playlist items in system configuration
restarting the router manually and from the router control panel
shutting off my airport card and turning it back on
set a new location in network preferences
setting DNS to Google DNS and openDNS
setting IPv4 settings to manual
checking the router channel
restarting my computer
setting the network utility to constantly ping
checked the preferences on the netgear router site
turning bluetooth on and off
setting and unsetting a firewall
using network diagnostics
the only thing that works is to turn airport off, then on again and reconnect. even then, I can only get a few page views, sometimes only one, before it stops loading anything. my wifi connection used to be amazing, then one day it just started doing this. I get very slow speeds when I can connect, and downloads are extremely slow.

I also finger McAffee as the culprit, it's not necessary on Mac's as of 10.6.8+ Apple installed their own anti-OS X malware detector and it checks for updates like every 26 hours or so.
If you need to clean the Windows malware off their files, the free ClamXav does the job nicely and doesn't bugger up the machine as it's run as you need it.
For your other slowdown issues, I suggest you look through these tips of mine, my Snow Leopard is incredibly fast.
Why is my computer slow?
Diagnosing network issues
Tune up your Mac here
For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

Airport Express and USB Hard drive and extremely slow performance

HI Guys,
I seem to having a lot of trouble with an Airport express and a Lacie 1TB drive. While I have solved several problems by updating firmware and enabling journalling on the Lacie, I am still having problems with extremely slow performance with my macbook, particularly using itunes and Firefox.
Any ideas and any further information needed?
Regards
BJDprivate

BjdPrivate wrote:
HI,
I formatted it using the Lacie setup program for Mac and later enabled it for journalling using Disk utility. This seemed to solve a lot of the recognition problems I was having, however the I-Tunes and firefox performance is still atrocious. If I do Need to completely reformat it using Disk Utility, will I lose my files on the disk now?
not if you move them to a temporary location before you start.
yes, you are better of formatting the drive with DU.

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