Airport process consuming 90-100% of cpu time

I have first gen Macbook Pro, 2Ghz. Just in the last day or so, I've noticed that the "airport" process is pretty well using up one of my CPU cores. I can kill it and I don't notice any problems.
I have read the article explaining that third party VPN software can cause this, but I have no such software installed.
edit: I've noticed that it does this when first booted. If I use airport status in the menu bar to turn off the airport card and then turn it back on, the cpu usage goes back down. Anyone know what might cause this?
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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0x35c03d88 : 0x254d4b (0x5317e80 0x357dd000 0x0 0x76277)
0x35c03df8 : 0x257d1f (0x3ca8c00 0x5317e80 0x357dd000 0x0)
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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: firefox-bin
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Well, I have been noticing some other issues going on and am starting to think there is some link with one of the recent apple updates (10.6.4 and ProApplications perhaps). I have found that while I am running certain applications the CPU suddenly doubles in consumption. The two cases I have found are with Ableton Live and streaming video through web browsers (firefox and safari). After some time of operation, say around 5 minutes regardless of whether any other applications are running or not, the CPU suddenly spikes, stays at double the previous, and eventually starts causing the system to stutter and crash my external soundcard and drive.
I should probably make a new general post, but in the meantime if you have any suggestions or have seen other people with issues since a recent Apple update let me know.

Mdnsresponder will not quit. Consumes above 100% CPU and kills my battery. Also causes my fan to run constantly and my computer to get extremely hot. Force quitting doesn't work. It just comes back.

The mdnsresponder will not quit. Consumes above 100% CPU and kills my battery. Also causes my fan to run constantly and my computer to get extremely hot. Force quitting doesn't work. It just comes back. I posted about this earlier and never got an answer. Somebody, please help.
Thanks.

mDNSResponder is a background process that runs all the time. If you kill it, it's relaunched automatically.
Please launch the Console application and select "system.log" from the file list. Enter "mDNSResponder" (without the quotes) in the search field. Post a sample of the log messages in the Console window -- only one example of each repeated message, please.

"airport" process uses all of the memory an cpu

After I reinstalled my MacBook and updated to the latest version of Tiger (10.4.8) my airport network behaves very strange. When I boot my MacBook or disconnect/connect my Airport network a process called "airport" is consuming all the CPU and memory. It uses one core exclusivly and gows to 1,2 GByte of RAM (even more virtual Memory). This slows down the macbook to almost still and heats up the CPU.
The only thing I can do is to kill the process. Then everything works fine. But this is annoying.
It seems to make no difference if I use a wireless LAN or not. When airport is enabled then this bug occurs.

On this thread,
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=349
2852, people that have Check Point Software's
SecureClient are reporting the airport process using
~95% of CPU time.
I had SecureClient installed and I can confirm that
if you uninstall SecureClient, the airport process
works normally again. I don't know if this is the
only source of this problem, but if you happen to
have SecureClient, then you might want to uninstall
and confirm if this solves your problem.
Also I would be curious if anyone is having this
problem that has never had SecureClient, or any 3rd
party VPN software.
I can confirm that at least some of my problem with the "airport" process was related to VPN software. After uninstalling the Cisco VPN client, problems dramatically reduced. Interestingly, I still have the Checkpoint client installed, but only rarely see problems with "airport".
MBP 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Javaw running SLOW / consuming inordinate CPU time and space

I recently got a new IBM thinkpad and have installed the latest version of Java on it. Applets run fine in the browser, but any Java application I run, for example opening the control panel for java, takes several minutes to open, and while this is happening, my CPU is running the javaw process at 97-100% capacity and consuming about 16-20MB of space.
Running other apps can take 5-10 minutes to launch. Once running, performance is faster, but still intolerably slow.
I have tried downgrading to a previous version of java and find the same performance issue.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this performance issue?

I have a Thinkpad which is a couple of years old. It runs 1.4 fine.
My OS is win 98, and I had extra memory put in it to bring it up to a massive 98megs of ram.
I think the CPU is something like 4-600mhz. (as I said, ancient).
Something is wrong with your Thinkpad, either hardware, or software configuration.
Oh wait! It's IBM! Of course it is farked!
My story:
13 months after purchase: harddrive completely fails.
IBM's response -> "you had a 12 month warranty only... sux to be you"
(Nb: I don't travel with the laptop... 99.9% of the time it sits there in one place and pretends to be a desktop, it gets considerably less wear and tear than a normal laptop would)
So I replace the harddrive and soldier on.
Eventually I upgrade to the latest version of Netbeans.
Which promptly stops working, and futzes with the OS so that the previous
versions of Netbeans won't work either (oh wait, this rant is supposed to
be about IBM) (point was, I don't have enough ram to run Netbeans, but
every other Java program runs fine - including some which factorise
large near primes.... 60 bits is a challenge, 40 bits is near instantaneous)
Towards the end of last year the side of my laptop screen chipped... and then
the chip became a crack, and now it is a gaping crack. (Before it got too bad)
I took it to an IBM repair place and they said 'oh yes, that's very common'.
Apparently they only reinforce one side of the laptop screen...
The good news is I've upgraded to an eMac, and am currently a happy camper.
Of course, I'm having trouble getting the data off the laptop, because the braindead
version of the windows disk IBM included doesn't let me install new hardware (not
entirely true - I was able to install a USB mouse with it... woohoo.).
I've hooked up a keyboard to the serial port (which was why I needed to move the mouse over to USB)
but... it keeps dropping out because the serial port is loose or badly connected or something.
The one time I tried using a network card in the expansion slot it of course failed to
install properly (see #$%$#^@ windows disk)... after a week of trying different things
it got stuck in the slot, and the slot broke when I pulled it out.
The laptop is nearly completely stuffed, and falling apart...
BUT JAVA STILL RUNS LIKE A GURU ON PRUNE JUICE!!!
It runs like the Silver Surfer runs from Galactus when he gets that look in his eye and pulls out the jar of crunchy peanut butter.
It runs like Jesse Owens at a KKK conference.
Java is in fact the only reason I haven't set up a catapult to send the #$^#%&$ laptop
through the office window of the local head of IBM with a note wrapped around it saying
"warranty this, #@$^$%^head!!!!".
(Actually, if it wasn't for Java, I'd have thrown the thing out the window long since)
IBM how I despise thee. I loathe thee with a passion.
We hates it we does. Filthy IBM, nasty IBM.

Airport process consuming 90-100% of cpu time

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