Dock process using 100% processor

Hello all,
Thanks in advance for the help. I've just bought a new MacBook Pro 15' with a 512 SSD drive and have been having freezes that seem due to the "Dock" process that uses 100% of a processor as you can see in the attached screenshot.
I killed it, I restarted the mac, I deleted preference pane, etc ... and nothing works
Can you help me ?
Regards,
Arnaud

Mark Marin wrote:
Wow, I am not sure how you made the connection between the setting to "Show Windows applications folder in Dock" but deselecting it certainly did the trick.
Oh, that's easy. I'm studying for the New York state bar exam this summer and I absolutely needed my computer this morning for a simulated practice exam. Under those circumstances, you'd be surprised at how creative your inner-geek can be. (Aside: If you're reading this Cupertino, I am still available for an entry level legal position after the bar. I'm punctual, technically savvy and litigious - what else could anyone ask for?)
Best,
Sean

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Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SafariBookmarksSyncer.plist (checksum 4209634474)
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   <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.apple.Safari</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <string>Aqua</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/SafariSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/S afariSyncClient</string>
    <string>--sync</string>
    <string>com.apple.Safari</string>
    <string>--entitynames</string>
    <string>com.apple.bookmarks.Bookmark,com.apple.bookmarks.Folder</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>ThrottleInterval</key>
    <integer>60</integer>
    <key>WatchPaths</key>
    <array>
    <string>/Users/USER/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist</string>
    </array>
   </dict>
   ...and 1 more line(s)
Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist (checksum 64800286)
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    <string>com.google.keystone.user.agent</string>
    <key>LimitLoadToSessionType</key>
    <string>Aqua</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
     <string>/Users/USER/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bu ndle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/GoogleSoftw areUpdateAgent</string>
     <string>-runMode</string>
     <string>ifneeded</string>
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    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>3523</integer>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
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Bad plists
   Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphotomosaic.plist
Listeners
   launchd: afpovertcp
   launchd: afpovertcp
   launchd: microsoft-ds
   launchd: ssh
   launchd: microsoft-ds
   launchd: ssh
   kdc: kerberos
User login items
   Microsoft Outlook
   - /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app
   TransmitMenu
   - /Applications/Transmit.app/Contents/MacOS/TransmitMenu.app
   ClipMenu
   - /Applications/ClipMenu.app
   Dept
   - /Volumes/Dept
   Public
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   Apps
   - /Volumes/Apps
Restricted files: 4584
Lockfiles: 99
Elapsed time (s): 352

Systemd-journal process using 100% of one cpu core after reboot

journalctl -b showed
"Process 2016 (virtuoso-t) dumped core."
more than a few times and virtuoso-t would was using more cpu than it does most of the time.
at 14 minutes of uptime systemd-journal stopped using 100% and went back to normal. Anyone know a way to figure out what happened here?
update:
systemd-coredump[3182]: Process 3133 (virtuoso-t) dumped core.
systemd-journal[5407]: Permanent journal is using 2.6G (max allowed 4.0G, trying to leave 4.0G free of 50.7G available → current limit 4.0G).
systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service watchdog timeout!
systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service stop-sigterm timed out. Killing.
systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered failed state.
systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff time, scheduling restart.
systemd[1]: Stopping Journal Service...
systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
systemd-journal[5407]: Journal started
dbus[365]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service'
dbus[365]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
systemd-coredump[3289]: Process 3235 (virtuoso-t) dumped core.
it happened again here is what the journal was saying while it was happening (i removed lots of (virtuoso-t) dumped core that happened ... 10 or more times)
Thanks in advance,
Wolf Larson
Last edited by wolflarson (2014-03-22 15:36:37)

In the Newbie Corner of the forums, there are a few stickied threads that are recommended reads. One of which is this one.
If the logs are not too too much, then it can be posted here with code tags. If it is crazy big, pastebin it and then post the link.
If this is really all the information it gives about the journal being nuts, then you might want to enable debug levels of logging for the journal and then see if you can gather more information that way. This can either by done by using a drop-in snippet to the unit file, or by turning on debug levels for the entire system from the kernel command line.
The journal is not designed in such a way that it can be continously written to. There are safeguards in place to ensure that masively spamming services are cut off after a certain number of log messages in a given timeframe. Additionally, even the flush from the journal in RAM to the disk is only done periodically.

Doc2text process using 100% cpu for way too long

I've run into this issue before, and have never received a satisfactory resolution.
When we publish certain PDF documents via collab to the KD, the doc2text process on our portal servers (also our API servers) spin up to 100% CPU for about 90 seconds. This causes the publish from collab to fail, so we resort to directly uploading the file to the KD via content upload.
1) Why is doc2text running on our portal servers in the first place? Is this a result of the portal server or api service? If i move the API service off to another machine, will that remove this CPU hog from our front end servers?
2) Has anyone seen this before, or found a way around it? Is there a newer version of doc2text in 10gR3 that isn't so terrible?
I'm preparing to move to 1-cpu virtuals in our new environment so any process that takes up 100% of the CPU is going to kill performance.

Doc2text is native search client functionality used by portal, automation, ws, collab, publisher, etc. The portal components use it when indexing content to search server. It is installed seperately with each portal component. If you have multiple portal components installed on the same box, the ones that use Doc2text will share it from the common folder where it is located. Doc2text uses different libraries for the purpose of raw text extraction and processing, the processed information being sent in a proprietary format to the search server.
Doc2text is a processor heavy component as it needs to execute intensives tasks necessary to parse and extract raw data from such file formats as Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat. Some files may be more complex to extract data from and take longer for this task to complete.
The best way to increase performance would be to install the various portal components onto their own machines. For example not installing portal and automation on seperate servers. This way when you run a crawler job that imports files, the running of doc2text will not use cpu cycles on the portal web server.

Changes to published Locked Reference processor not reflected in process using that processor

I performed the following steps:
1) Created a Process A and made a processor P from a set of 3 standard EDQ processors in it
2) Published the processor P as a 'Locked Reference Processor' P1 (at Project Level)
3) Created a Process B that uses P1
4) Changed P to use a different logic check and re-ran it in process A (gave the results I expected)
5) Re-ran process B however that gave the original results from (3)
6) Re-published processor P as P2
7) Created a Process C that uses P2 that gave the new results from (4)
I was expecting at step (5) to get the results from the revised processor logic but perhaps I've misunderstood how this works so would appreciate your advice.
Also is it possible to 'unmake' the processor so that the group of processors (that one made a processor from) appears back on the process page.
Thanks, Nik

If you had re-published (step 6), writing over the existing published processor, and then re-ran process B (step 5), you would have got the updated logic. Otherwise you have not actually updated the processor, only the 'master process' the you initially published it from.
Hope this makes sense.
Regards,
Mike

Mail uses 100% processor

When mail starts to download some messages from the Exchange server the processor goes to 100% and stays there. I have to force quit and reopen. Anyone else having this issue? I've had Lion installed since the release and this just started a couple of days ago. Any ideas?
Thanks!

First thing I'd do is rebuild the mailbox for whichever account it is that's causing the trouble.
In the top menubar of Mail, choose 'Mailbox > Rebuild'.

Adobe Reader XI use 100 % of the processor in Internet Explorer

We have sequenced Adobe Reader XI with App-V 5.0 SP2 hotfix 5. This package is deployed in our Windows 2008 R2 Citrix XenApp 7.6 server. When we open a PDF document in Internet Explorer, after about 10 seconds IE freeze and this process use 100% of one processor.
The first 10 seconds, we can do watever we want with the PDF file.
We are searching a fix for this problem for many weaks, with no success. We have virtualized Adobe Reader X and we have no problem with PDF in Internet Explorer.
I know that installing Reader localy will solve the problem, but we want to virtualised the maximum of application without installing it natively.
Thanks for your help!

I have run a procmon and i have discover that when the processor is 100%, the Internet Explorer process query the registry with those key to the infinite :
14:21:54.1307690 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegQueryKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\AppV\Client\Packages\E9C21601-2C25-4417-92E9-35A059B30C37 SUCCESS Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x100
14:21:54.1307944 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegOpenKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\AppV\Client\Packages\E9C21601-2C25-4417-92E9-35A059B30C37\Registry\User\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache\1FB\D9B7F780 NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Maximum Allowed
14:21:54.1308273 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegQueryKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\AppV\Client\Packages\E9C21601-2C25-4417-92E9-35A059B30C37\Versions\4679E4EB-4D2A-4D8F-9CB8-481E6FEFBC20 SUCCESS Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x100
14:21:54.1308517 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegOpenKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\AppV\Client\Packages\E9C21601-2C25-4417-92E9-35A059B30C37\Versions\4679E4EB-4D2A-4D8F-9CB8-481E6FEFBC20\Registry\User\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache\1FB\D9B7F780 NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Maximum Allowed
14:21:54.1308819 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegOpenKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache\1FB\D9B7F780 SUCCESS Desired Access: Maximum Allowed, Granted Access: Read, Create Link
14:21:54.1309094 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegSetInfoKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\Local Settings\MuiCache\1FB\D9B7F780 SUCCESS KeySetInformationClass: KeySetHandleTagsInformation, Length: 0
14:21:54.1309478 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegQueryKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\AppV\Client\Packages\E9C21601-2C25-4417-92E9-35A059B30C37 SUCCESS Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x100
14:21:54.1309732 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegCreateKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\AppV\Client\Packages\E9C21601-2C25-4417-92E9-35A059B30C37\Registry ACCESS DENIED Desired Access: Maximum Allowed
14:21:54.1310056 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegCloseKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\Local Settings\MuiCache\1FB\D9B7F780 SUCCESS
14:21:54.1310313 IEXPLORE.EXE 7800 RegEnumKey HKU\S-1-5-21-854245398-789336058-725345543-8900_CLASSES\Local Settings\MuiCache\1FB SUCCESS Index: 0, Name: D9B7F780
Thanks!

Processor management - uses 100% after a few hours

Hi guys,
i left a test program i'm writing running over night last night, it is logging data to file from a PLC and reading data from files and outputting this via the PLC.
It locked up after a couple of hours and task manager showed it was using 100% processor. (the PC is well speced)
The data it was handling from the PLC had all been logged correctley to different files with date stamps etc...
I'm wondering what could cause the 100% processor usage ?
The program is a sequence structure with the last sequence having a loop with a few case/sequence and subVI's in it. But ultimatley the only continouus operation is the loop which has an exicution delay off 1 second.
In fact i'll stick a picture on so its clearer.
Cheers Zac
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I have just tried using the "array to spread sheet string" function, but i need to add to this 1 item of data that is allready a string, and i cant see how to do that in your example, i tried a second array (see image) but it messed up position of the data in the file.
I have 1 string and 23 doubles that i want in a single file, so to get thses into a single array i was converting all the dbls into strings as i couldnt convert the string into a double.
Cheers, Zac
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Internet browsing uses 100% cpu

Hello everybody.
This situation has driven me crazy the last 4 months and till now i have not figure it out.
Everytime i have a video streaming in my computer, CPU usage goes to 100%. It happens every time, either using internet explorer or Firefox or Google chrome. Even when i have a skype video call or a gtalk video call. Some description of each one:
Using internet explorer: While i am watching a youtube video, CPU limits up to 100% after 1 minute or sometime 5 minutes. I am not able to watch a 15min video. Internet explorer process uses 100%CPU. When i kill it via task manager, another instance of IE
appears with the same CPU usage. I also kill it and then 4 or 5 instances of rundll32.exe appear consuming 100CPU. If i kill them, explorer.exe uses 100% of cpu. If i do nothing and just wait, CPU is 100% for two hours. If i just kill only IE instances, taskmngr.exe
is consuming 40-50% of CPU for 1-2 minutes, then other processes like conhost or csrss consumes the same amount of CPU and after 4-5 minutes everything comes back to normal. That's the story everytime i use IE 11.0.9600.16518
Using Firefox: While video streaming, flash player process consumes all CPU. When i kill it, the same behaviour described above occurs.
Using Google Chrome: When i run it, 5-6 instances of google chrome appear in task manager and after some time this browser also hungs with 100CPU.
All above are also happening while i run Skype either i have a video call or just text messaging. Sometimes svchost is 25-30 % and system hungs.
Operating system is Windows 7 home premium 64bit with SP1, my graphics card is NVidia Gforce GT 230M (latest drivers 20% when these situations occur, my system is extremely slow and whatever i do, it limits up CPU usage.
Any assistance is acceptable. Thanks for the patience.

Hi,
First, I would suggest that you reduce the hardware acceleration on the computer and check if it helps.
a. Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking Adjust screen resolution.
b. Click Advanced Settings, click the Troubleshoot tab, and then click Change settings.
c. Note that some video card drivers do not permit you to change settings.
d. Move the Hardware acceleration slider toward None to reduce or turn off video hardware acceleration.
This issue can be caused by confliction from one of the background programs or add-ons.
You may use Process explorer as Milos mentioned to find the root cause to fix the issue:
Process explorer:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
You can follow the references below to troubleshoot the issue:
1. 3RD part app: Remove to check the issue
2. Drivers: Update or install compatible version
3. System process/service: Upload the log file for analyzing.
I also would like to suggest you use Windows Performance Recorder to check the issue:
Troubleshooting Windows Performance Issues Using the Windows Performance Recorder
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/22/troubleshooting-windows-performance-issues-using-the-windows-performance-recorder.aspx
To diagnose HDD and RAM, I would like to suggest you contact your computer vender.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Blair Deng
Blair Deng
TechNet Community Support

"EMPTY" Virtual Circuits causes the dispatcher proces D000 use 100% CPU

(29th April)
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Apr 29 14:59:56 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
Could someone please indicates why the D000 process uses 100% cpu while no XDB action seems to be running? Whe are not using shared server (besides the XML DB usage) and the only value for the dispatcher parameter in the init<SID>.ora = (PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=<SID>XDB).
update (30th april)
When I lookup the virtual circuits I notice 2 VC without server and waiter address and without session info.
GERE@ARG_DV8>
# SELECT RAWTOHEX(C.CIRCUIT), RAWTOHEX(C.SERVER) SRV, RAWTOHEX(C.WAITER)WTR,
2 D.NAME,
3 S1.NAME,
4 S.SID,
5 S.SERIAL#,
6 C.STATUS,
7 C.QUEUE,
8 C.MESSAGES,
9 C.BYTES
10 FROM V$CIRCUIT C, V$DISPATCHER D, V$SHARED_SERVER S1, V$SESSION S
11 WHERE C.DISPATCHER = D.PADDR(+) AND C.SERVER = S1.PADDR(+) AND
12 C.SADDR = S.SADDR(+)
13 /
CIRCUIT SRV WTR NAME NAME SID SERIAL# STATUS QUEUE MESSAGES BYTES
C0000002398456C0 00 00 D000 NORMAL NONE 6 261
C000000239840DC0 00 00 D000 NORMAL NONE 7 280
2 rows selected.
The SADDR is empty also.
GERE@ARG_DV8>
# SELECT SADDR, CIRCUIT, DISPATCHER, SERVER, SUBSTR(QUEUE,1,8) "QUEUE", WAITER
2 FROM V$CIRCUIT;
SADDR CIRCUIT DISPATCHER SERVER QUEUE WAITER
00 C000000239840DC0 C000000214C05FB8 00 NONE 00
00 C0000002398456C0 C000000214C05FB8 00 NONE 00
2 rows selected.
A lsnrctl services shows 2 current
Service "ARG_DV8XDB" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "ARG_DV8", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Handler(s):
"D000" established:58903 refused:0 current:2 max:2046 state:ready
DISPATCHER <machine: leo, pid: 5672>
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=leo.argenta.be)(PORT=53044))
Stop and start of the listener doesn't solve this problem but killing the unix process will do. When I killed the D000 proces a new dispatcher is started (does pmon do this?) and the current shows 0. This workaround is fine on the DVL machine but no sollution on a production DB :-)
Kind regards,
Rene
Edited by: Rene Geilings on Apr 30, 2009 2:28 AM

By the way... you just could be unlucky hitting a very rare situation that caused the phenomenon decribed by you. Deamon processes also could arise due too standard JDBC, ODBC or other connection methods. As long as you don't provide Oracle Support with a SR, you will not know if it is actually XDB related or not.
If I would implement XDB functionality in a production system than at least I would:
a) disable automatic memory management by setting SGA parameters manually
b) set the large_pool_size to a appropriate value to support the shared server processes
c) tweak dispatcher and shared server processes to match at least values that represent
   the minimum++ needed processes (= a higher value then needed maximum)
d) set java_pool size to a decent size (250 Mb or higher)
e) set an appropriate PGA setting to support XML fragment handling
f) DISABLE autoregistering database functionality with the listener
   (see amongs others "Registering non-default XMLDB HTTP/WebDAV and FTP ports
   on a non-default Oracle Listener port" - http://www.liberidu.com/blog/?p=116)
g) alter the xdbconfig.xml file with more appropiate timeouts, locking and cache handling.
h) dedicate a specific listener (aka a a listener not called "LISTENER") for shared server
   connection handling (this for management reasons and specific debugging).
i) use version 10.2.0.4.0 or 11.1.0.7.0 for production environments (I know that this
   matches your environment)
j) always enforce that client software matches the database version
   (as in your case 10.2.0.4.0)
k) keep NLS settings on client and database equal and support a AL32UTF characterset
   (IMHO a minimum requirement on the database side)

The Dock processor uses 100% CPU

hi, can someone please help me? my computer for the last 2 dayshas been heating up and the battery wasn’t as long as it should, so i checked"activity monitor" and the Process name "Dock" is using100% CPU. i tried quitting the process but it just reappears, i triedrestarting/shutting down and it just comes back to 100%CPU usage as soon as itturns on before i turned on anything. So does anyone know how to fix thisproblem?
i dont have any start up programs, but i do have "dropBox/logMeIn/iStatpro" on my menu bar.
I did check google and the discussions on the apple website but couldn’tfind anything useful. i’ll appreciate any help that you can give me thanks.
thanks,

dock cpu: Apple Support Communities
Dock running at 100% of CPU: Apple Support Communities

My imac on OS 10.5.8 is showing near 100% processor usage most of the time. It appeasrs that process SystemUIServer is the culprit using 70% or more of processor time. What does anyone think is causing this ?

My imac on OS 10.5.8 is showing near 100% processor usage most of the time. It appeasrs that process SystemUIServer is the culprit using 70% or more of processor time. What does anyone think is causing this ?
What is the purpose of the UIServer module ?
Is there a good place to learn about the OS modules ?

Useful information from BDAqua in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22676167#22676167

Mail is using 100% CPU processes - wondering if I possibly have the answer?

Hi...
I have a big problem with Mail using all the CPU processes but may just have found a possible solution. I'm posting to see if anyone else shares this problem or can shed some light on whether or not this is a possible solution.
_*The Problem*_
Over the past couple of weeks, I've noticed that Mail is using on average 100% of the processes and sometimes up to 168% (I have screenshots to prove it). My 17" MacBookPro gets very, very hot and the fans spin up to cool it down so it's obviously not right as it's never done this before. I can only use Mail intermittently now as the machine overheats quickly soon after Mail starts up. As a result, the CPU is being hammered so I can't now use Mail or other CPU intensive applications properly, which is a big problem.
I've used the iStatPro widget to verify that Mail is constantly using 100% of the CPU processes. I've also verified this using Utilities / Activity Monitor. When the Activity Monitor application loads, I've selected Mail from the list of Process Names and then clicked Inspect. I've managed to identify the parent process as being launchd (110) which is using all the CPU power. Here are some other stats for this parent process:
%CPU 95.56 (at that specific instance)
Threads 15
Ports 275
CPU Time 3:30.55
Context Switches 310968
Faults 65795
Page Ins 1
Mach Messages In 272627
Mach Messages Out 65025
Mach System Calls 1459878
Unix System Calls 103120
I guess the important bit is the first bit that says 95.56%.
I have screenshots to back this up but no way of posting them here. I have also managed to use Activity Monitor to generate sample data that the process is creating and again there is no way of posting an attachment here but there is lots of sample data from the process to look at. I've compared the sample data from my MacBookPro to a colleagues machine and the difference between the sample data is enormous. There is obviously something very wrong happening.
Here's some basic info about my machine, with the serial number removed:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro 17"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP21.00A5.B08
SMC Version: 1.14f5
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
System Software Overview:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.6.0
Boot Mode: Normal
Time since boot: 1:44
_*The Possible Solution??*_
I recently installed a Beta version of Daylite 3 as I was interested in the application and remembered that it integrates closely with Mail. I wondered if Daylite was constantly trying to communicate with Mail and having problems. Having uninstalled Daylite 3, the problem of Mail using all the processes has so far not reappeared. Mail is now using very little of the CPU processes as is usual. However, I'm currently at home instead of on my network at the office so I'll wait to see if the problem still fails to appear when at work.
I know other people have had problems with Mail using 100% of the processes. Have you also installed Daylite 3? There has been some talk of Flip4Mac being a possible culprit but I use Flip4Mac and haven't previously had the problem. The only recent change and connection I can think of is an install of Daylite 3.
I don't want to talk down Daylite 3 but it's the only thing I can think of and having uninstalled it, the problem hasn't occurred. I hope I have stumbled across the solution but any thoughts, shared experiences or feedback would be greatly appreciated...
Many Thanks,
Nigel

Hi...
Thanks for the post. Not sure what you mean when you say "What does Mail say it's doing?" Can you be more specific and supply specific instructions to follow so that I can give you the information you need?
I've sampled the process but can't post any attachments on the forum. I've listed what the Activity Monitor stats are saying at the top level in the post above.
This is a serious problem that's hammering my machine and making it overheat and almost making it unusable. Any feedback or instructions anyone can give me for what info to supply to help you determine what the issue is would be greatly appreciated. I'm hoping to find a solution here rather than have the machine overheat permanently and eventually fail, leaving me to sort it out with AppleCare.
Help!
Clown Guy

Dock uses 100% CPU

My Dock process, after a while, begins using 100% of a CPU core. I can kill the Dock process and everything goes back to normal once the Dock restarts. I have no idea what is triggering the Dock to start consuming CPU. Has anyone else seen this, or have any ideas on how to investigate?
Seen on 10.7.0-10.7.2.

I have gfxCardStatus running. I've now switched that off to see if that helps. I typically awaken my Mac by opening the lid, then connecting an external display, then closing the lid again. Dock often goes to 100% at that time. (I will have to test further to see at which step).
I noticed my system.log is full of this, at the time I awoke the Mac and the Dock went to 100%:
Oct 31 10:43:27 GrahamsUni gfxCardStatus[337]: __DisplayReconfigurationCallback_block_invoke_1 Has the gpu changed? Let's find out!
Oct 31 10:43:27 GrahamsUni gfxCardStatus[337]: __DisplayReconfigurationCallback_block_invoke_1 nowIsUsingIntegrated (current): 1, _usingIntegrated (previous): 1
Oct 31 10:43:27 GrahamsUni Finder[238]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayAliasList: Invalid display 0x41dc9d01
Oct 31 10:43:27: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Oct 31 10:43:27 GrahamsUni Dock[12428]: -[DPDesktopPictureManager displayReconfigured:uuid:flags:]: trying to add display id 0x7bdb15d2 that already exists
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni Mail[223]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x7bd8debf
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni Mail[223]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni App Store[12538]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x7bd8debf
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni App Store[12538]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni App Store[12538]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni Finder[238]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x7bd8debf
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni Finder[238]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni Finder[238]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x7bd8debf
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni Finder[238]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Oct 31 10:43:39 GrahamsUni Finder[238]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x7bd8debf
... the last two lines repeat 40-50 times.

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