MacBook Performance Issues
Hello,
I have a 1.8GHZ MacBook (with 512 RAM) which I bought only two months ago and was wondering if there are things I can do in system preferences that would help my MacBook work more effiecently? When using only one application such as Photoshop for example, the fan immediatly starts up and does not stop until I quit the application. My friend has a G4 and the fan never starts up when using only Photoshop.
Is there something I can disable (such as the Dock), that maybe running in the background, or delete something that may improve the performance. I can't afford to upgrade the RAM just yet, but I thought that the MacBook could at least be able to run Photoshop without struggling. Also when I am editing an image the spinning globe appears, and I have to wait a few seconds before I can continue...
Any ideas?
Regards Lee
Photoshop has not been released in an Intel-native version yet. Currently it runs in Rosetta, an emulator layer for PowerPC (like in the G4) applications. Running in emulation is memory-intensive and slower. Adding RAM is pretty much the only thing you can do for current Photoshop performance, beyond what you're already doing by avoiding running other applications at the same time.
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I have this MacBook Pro bought brand-new in January 2010:
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Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
and until today had never attached a second monitor to it. Today I hooked up my Samsung 24" to do some dual screen editing in Final Cut 7.0.3. I was unable to play back my video at full speed in the second monitor, and after a few seconds of skippy playback I'd get that error message about unable to play back video at full speed and to check my RT settings. I was using a Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter. My computer has no issues playing the video in the laptop's monitor at any resolution and any quality settings (I've never changed the RT settings or anything else in the menu ever but I tried every combination this time). I then tried using my TV as a 2nd monitor with an HDMI adapter. Same performance issues. I then tried my friend's newer 13" MBP 8,1 and it performed flawlessly with the same project & footage. I feel like my $3,000 computer should outperform a $1,200 one even if mine is a year and a half older. Any advice?
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Last week, I purchased a 23" external monitor to use alongside my "flagship" 2011 15" hi-res, 2.3 i7 Macbook Pro with 8Gb of RAM.
It is connected via a mini-DVI to D-sub analog (not that that should matter?) and all appeared fine.
The first issue I had was with my MBP's fan now running CONSTANTLY, when I have the second monitor attached. Even when the machine is completely idle.
When using the machine to record audio, this is a fairly hefty problem and not something I had anticipated - indeed why would I anticipate such a thing?
What is far, far worse though is that over the last few days I have had repeated problems with performance drop-outs and errors in Logic and I have trying to fathom out why. Realising that the only major system change made, was the above monitor connection, I ran some tests.
I restarted my MBP, no other apps were running and with my new 23" monitor attached acting as main display with MBP built in display on as secondary
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Started the same project, the same 8 bar section and hey presto - CPU usage back down to 40% to 60%
The above was reflected in the CPU usage history with the graph showing CPU use down by about a half, when running this Logic project WITHOUT the external display.
There is a very useful benchmark Logic project that has been used as a test by many users to gauge Logic performance on given Apple hardware.
The project has about 100 tracks pre-configured with CPU intensive plugins, designed to tax the CPU.
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On my MBP, with the external monitor NOT attached, I can play back around 50 of the audio tracks in this benchmark project.
With the monitor attached, I can get about 22 tracks playing.... which is actually a far worse a performance drop (-50% I think!?) than with the first example!
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Hi,
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There was nothing wrong with the S.M.A.R.T.-status of the drive.
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I am definitely disappointed with my computer.
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November 9th, 2009
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I took my computer to the local Apple technical support, the "Omni Informatica", in Curitiba, PR, Brazil, to format the HD and reinstall the Snow Leopard. As I needed more space, I also changed my original 160Gb HD for a new 250Gb Western Digital HD. The service was finished in Nov 17th.
I noticed also little cracks in the laptop case, but I had no time to insist with the bad local technical support to repair it (I know Apple already acknowledged this problem.) They said, at first, that they would have to ask the Apple USA to send the body, or something like that.
(Pictures:http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986477312032226)
January 12th, 2010.
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It was not dropped, it was not crashed, and I did not "close it with a pen inside".
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(Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/gstorck/MacbookProblems#5476986361400585122)
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Don't forget: It's a 1,5-year-old Macbook, with 2.4GHz, 4Gb RAM and the O.S. is installed for no longer than 4 months. It is supposed to work better, I guess.
I saved a lot of money to buy a good computer, and to get rid of the endless issues I had with PCs. That issues never were so serious with the ones I face now with Macbook.
Even if I pay R$1200 to replace the screen, with the money I don't have, I would still stand these performance issues, which seem to have come with this problematical laptop. I hope to have some solution from Apple, if it want to deliver what it promises and want to keep a customer.
Otherwise, I will have to change to another system platform and another computer manufacturer, to see if I stop throwing money away with these devices. I think that maybe at least, the cost-benefit ratio will be higher.
Did anybody receive contact from Apple support about these screen problems?
Guilherme R. Storck
Apple user since 2008
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gstorck (at) gmail (dot) comWell, your first issue is pretty clearly just some bad RAM, and it sounds like even the replacement RAM was bad. Who knows if the people who put it in had any kind of clue what they were doing. I've seen repair shops where people are smoking in the same room they do repairs.
Second problem sounds typical of a failing HDD. It's a fairly common problem with laptops... Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer... Probably the single most common problem with laptops no matter who makes them. People get this notion in their heads that the "portable" aspect of laptops means you can pick them up and carry them all over while turned on. Which you can... If you don't mind dramatically shortening the life of the HDD. What "portable" REALLY means with laptops, is that they are easy to move if you put them into a powered down state. They should NEVER be moved around when in normal operation. And since you seem to do a bit of traveling, if you're on a plan, and there's turbulence, you should shut the laptop off until it smooths out.
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And since your initial hard drive was already starting to fail, it hasn't magically stopped failing since being removed from the system, so obviously performance is going to get worse.
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Xbench:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10081
MenuMeters:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10451
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Hope this helps in some ways.
Cheers,
Rene -
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Hi,
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If any experts or people with ideas for me to speed up the computer, please respond. If you think the only way to improve performance is add memory or revert back to a previous version of OSX that I have a backup for, let me know.
Here is the info on my system, thank you in advance!!
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,1
1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
2 GB RAM
Video Information:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 3 days 21:20:10
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EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
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Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
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Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Fitbit Inc. Fitbit Base Station
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Gatekeeper:
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User Internet Plug-ins:
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Flip4Mac WMV Support
Growl Support
Time Machine:
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Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
Time Machine not configured!
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2% SystemUIServer
1% diskimages-helper
1% mds
0% Google Chrome Helper EH
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59 MB GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon
57 MB Google Chrome Helper EH
52 MB Google Chrome Helper
39 MB Finder
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499 MB Active RAM
481 MB Inactive RAM
465 MB Wired RAM
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249.2 GB (67.82 GB free)
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Performance issues since upgrade
I am on a late 2011 MacBook Pro and am having severs performance issues since upgrading to Mavericks. I fear my issues may be related to company installed anti-virus (which I cannot remove), but I was hoping someone could look over my EtreCheck for other potential solutions.
One really odd issue I am having, which I cannot seem to find good information for on Google, is at least 4-5 times a day my Mac just stops. No beach ball, no anything, for about 1-5 minutes. Then it's fine. Maybe just me grasping at straws, but it seems related to a when webpage loads a bunch of images? I always use Safari btw, but testing other browsers, like Chrome & Firefox, it happens as well.
I have also removed TotalFinder and have noticed no improvement and still have the above issue.
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Problem description:
slow performance on Mavericks
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated November 11, 2014 at 8:51:26 AM EST
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MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,3
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 1024 MB
Color LCD 1920 x 1200
LED Cinema Display 1920 x 1200
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S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
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Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.30 GB (256.69 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
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Fitbit Inc. Fitbit Base Station
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
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Files (disk1s5) /Volumes/Files : 499.90 GB (416.87 GB free)
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NortonMissedTasks: Path: /Library/StartupItems/NortonMissedTasks
SMC: Path: /Library/StartupItems/SMC
SymAutoProtect: Path: /Library/StartupItems/SymAutoProtect
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[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist Support
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Why your Mac runs slower than it should
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Experiencing strange performance issues after a hard drive failure - Help!
I bought my mid-2012 i5 Macbook Pro in December of 2012. I realized when shopping for computers that I wanted an SSD installed, but that it would be a lot cheaper if I bought the SSD and installed it rather than customizing it in the Apple Store. So I bought a nice Samsung 128GB SSD (820 or 840 - can't remember which) and did the installation. I went ahead and installed two 4GB sticks of RAM while I was at it. Everything was just dandy: my boot time was just under 9 seconds, and all of my data-heavy apps booted in no-time at all. Then all **** broke loose.
About two weeks ago, I opened my computer and I got the dreaded "? File Folder" notification with a gray screen. I immediately thought hard drive failure. No matter how many times I tried to boot, the computer just would not talk to the SSD anymore. I used Internet Recovery to get into my Disk Utility, and the entire partition was gone. I assumed the worst but wanted to be sure - I bought a hard drive enclosure and hooked the SSD up to an older Macbook, and lo and behold: it worked perfectly. I was not only able to recover data, but I could write data to the drive. Nothing appeared wrong with the drive when I plugged it into the old Macbook, but my newer Macbook still would not recognize it. Even my fiance's Windows 7 PC recognized the drive as "?" (since it was formatted for Mac, but hey - it recognized that it existed!).
I decided to re-install the original HDD that came with the 2012 Macbook Pro (the one I removed in favor of the SSD). I was able to re-install the OS and I can boot up at will, but everything is different. The performance issues are extremely noticeable. I can't have more than two programs running at one time without the spinning wheel of death appearing. My boot time went from 9 seconds to 2 minutes. I know that SSDs increase performance, so there is some slight performance downgrade to be expected since I am using a mechanical drive now -- but these are not normal issues. Sometimes I can't even type a web address into Safari without the wheel appearing. iTunes, and specifically the App Store, take minutes to open - and I have no media is on iTunes.
Here's the thing: I have tried just about anything to fix this problem that Google can pull up. I've verified the HDD, I've booted into Safe Mode, reset RAM and cache, run benchmarks and other performance tests, entered all sorts of weird language into Command Prompt, and studied Activity Monitor - I can't find a single red flag that would indicate anything being wrong. It appears to be a perfectly functioning, updated computer.
I'm thinking a piece of hardware failed that triggered the error with the SSD. I'm not really sure though since all of my performance tests indicate perfectly functioning hardware. I'm a little afraid to take it to the Apple store because I know they'll tell me it's my fault for opening the computer and replacing the hard drive in the first place.
Any ideas? At this point anything to salvage this computer would be helpful.Spin Cycle,
were those other computers which were able to recognize your SSD in its external enclosure also Macs? Do you know if your SSD has its most recent firmware revision installed? (If it doesn’t, its installer can be downloaded from the Samsung SSD firmware page for burning onto a bootable DVD.) I haven’t used the 830 myself, so I don’t know what its reputation is with Macs. I have an 840 PRO in my MacBook Pro, which has been trouble-free for me, but my understanding is that the 840 EVO has had trouble with Macs in its earlier firmware revisions — so I’m wondering if the 830 has a known track record with Macs, good or bad. -
Mac OS X Lion and Java7 + JavaFX2.1 performance issues
Currently I'm using the JavaFX 2.1 GA Build with Mac OS X Lion (10.7.3) on my MacBook Pro (2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, ATI Radeon X1600 256 MB) an run into some performance and ui problems. The overall rendering framerate is arround ~30fps (which is normally 60fps on my desktop computer) and if I try to resize the main window the window starts to flicker and I get the following exception:
Glass detected outstanding Java exception at -[GlassRunnable run]:src/com/sun/mat/ui/GlassApplication.m:163
Exception in thread "AWT-AppKit" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.glass.ui.mac.MacView._uploadPixels(MacView.java:72)
at com.sun.glass.ui.View.uploadPixels(View.java:706)
at com.sun.prism.j2d.J2DPresentable$Glass$1.run(J2DPresentable.java:99)So, how can I avoid the flickering and the performance drop? Any suggestions?2.1 system requirements =>
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/system_requirements_2-1/jfxpub-system_requirements_2-1.htm
For JavaFX applications to take advantage of the new hardware acceleration pipeline provided by JavaFX, your system must feature one of a wide range of GPUs currently available in the market. Table 1 lists the graphics cards that have been tested with JavaFX. If your system does not support hardware acceleration, then JavaFX uses the Java2D software pipeline.
For Mac OS X, the following standard Apple hardware graphics chips provide the required support:
- Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor with 288MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
- AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR5 memoryYour graphics card is not on that list, so JavaFX is falling back to a software pipeline, which does not work that well for you. You may not be able to resolve some performance issues when using a software pipline. You can log an issue at http://javafx-jira.kenai.com to request the NullPointerException be fixed - as that should not occur in any case and is a bug. -
Lightroom 4 performance issues
Hello,
Months ago I switched from Aperture 3 to Lightroom 3 and quickly fell in love with the program.
I switched due to constant freezing and crashes in Aperture 3. I invested time and money to learn Lightroom 3. Performance in Lightroom 3 was superb. Anything I would do with regards to any type of adjustment gave instant results on the screen. Program never crashed or froze onec. Quite frankly, I was shocked in a very positive way.
This was on Macbook Pro i5, 8GB RAM, Hi Res Antiglare screen with Snow Leopard.
I purchased Lightroom 4. I did a clean install of OSX Lion and, clean install of LR4. New catalogs, no importing of anything. LR 4 is sooo slow. It works just like Aperture 3 worked, the precise reason that made me dump it.
The longer LR4 is opened, the slower it becomes. The more adjustments are applied, the slower it becomes. I will use brush and I have to wait to see results. I can't use brush. It takes me 15-30 min to brush small part of the image. I will slide adjustments and wait. I will click on crop tool and wait, wait, wait. I really love this program but I just can't work like that.
Would anyone share some light or advice on what could be done, on what is going on?
Thank you.Rob,
I am working with NEF files and have done so in LR3. I understand from some reading that one of the benefits from converting files to DNG is that they are faster to work with. So I just copied one of my NEF as DNG and I have been working on it for about 15 minutes applying brush after brush and other adjustments to see if LR4 will slow down. Thus far it has been incredibly faster. I will continue to work on this one image and maybe convert few more to DNG to test but do you think that there might be some issue with NEF format? Another bizzare thing I just noticed is that when I open NEF image, my memory quickly goes up to over 3GB and that's not even during applying adjustments. Working now with DNG, memory is just around 1.3 GB. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???
I wonder what type of files are other LR4 users that are reporing performance issues working with.
Please share your thoughts.
Thank you. -
Performance issues using multiple CC design programs?
Hey! I'm Gwidz, and I'm having some performance issues with my adobe programs. I primarily use Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator for design work. I find that when I have any two of them open, I experience delays in clicking and dragging using my pen tablet, and laggy zooming in/scrolling. This issue disappears when I only have one program open.
I just bought this laptop to use these programs. Here's the specs:
Operating system: Windows 8 64 bit
Processor: 4th gen intel i7 4700HQ
Ram: 16gb DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M 3GB GDDR5
Cost me 2000 bucks on amazon, and I'm pretty disappointed in how things are going right now. I definitely don't think it could be a hardware issue, could it?
I'm using an SSD as my scratch disc, and using the 64 bit versions of all programs that have it. Nothing else running in the background except these programs, and yet still I experience poor performance.
Admitedly, I'm new to windows 8, and I'm learning everything that I can about it in hopes of resolving this issue.
If anyone has any advice, any and all is greatly aprpeciated!I'm seeing this exact same choppiness and VERY slow response times with the same low use of CPU and memory... WITH JUST ONE APP OPEN! Illustrator.
Macbook Retina Pro, 15 inch.
I've tried with the GPU forced off, and forced on, and on autoswitching.
I've tried clean reinstalls. And reboots. Etc.
This is not hardware related. It's something utterly flawed with the way Illustrator (and InDesign) draw do things. They are just grotesquely inefficient.
The fact that the program/app makes no effort to use more CPU/GPU to speed up responsiveness to the user input is the real indicator of how poorly optimised this code is.
After Effects is better. But it's adaptive degradation STUTTERS grotesquely, and it's actually better to try to turn that off. Although I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to turn that off at the moment.. forgotten where I previously found that switch.
Photoshop is also better.
I'm also talking about small files. Nothing in them. Just start drawing... Stutters... atrocious frame rates for the update of the screen and very poor response rates to input.
This is 64 bit optimised? I don't think so. -
Are there any known issues with Adobe Edge Animate and Yosemite? Experiencing performance issues since upgrading OS. Animation I was working on that had been performing in browser fine suddenly stopped working, and was not related to any action I had done at that point. Also was working in it today and program stopped responding to key board short cut commands.
I am having a whole slew of odd interface problems with a fresh 2014.1.1 on a fresh macbook pro with latest Yosemite. Program locks up, cursor selections don't show, things disappear. I have a mac mini also and the program runs fine on it. Is there possibly something related to the solid state hard drive in new macs?
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Mountain lion performance issues
After installing 10.8 I am experiencing performance issues...is there anything that needs to be done to my macbook pro to improve usability?
TomFirst post in the Mountain Lion forum. Second include some detailed information about your "issue."
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Illustrator CS6 mac performance issues
Hi there,
Ever since I've been using Illustrator CS6 on my Macbook Pro Retina, I have noticed the simple, but anoying performance issues.
The scrolling is so laggy, it gets irritating to move arround the project.
Is there any problem with the software? Compatibility issue perhaps? or am I doing something wrong?
Any help will be apreciated.
Thanks,
Gonçalo EspinhaMuch the same....
Clearly nobody loves retina mac users. -
I've been experiencing quite a severe performance issue since updating to 10.4.7 through Software Update. The update was applied to a clean system install, although I transferred everything (bar applications) from my G5 PowerMac as part of the original OS install.
The problem manifests itself as an "invisible" load on the system, averaging about 45% (i.e. not visible as a process in Activity Monitor (even with "All Processes" selected), but shows up on the CPU usage graph as a User load. On my MacBook Pro 2GHz this causes the fans to spin up after a few minutes and the system to feel sluggish - unusual as it is normally very responsive.
The issue does not occur straight after booting and logging in - it is not until an application is launched (for example, but not limited to, Mail) that the problem appears. Quitting all applications does not remove the load and rebooting appears to be the only way to stop it.
The issue is reproducible in that it happens every time I start my computer, log in and start doing things.
There is no interesting output in Console, or rather nothing that appears to be related to this issue.
Please note that putting the computer to sleep and waking it up again does not reproduce the problem. It is also not a hard disk space issue - I have over 20GB free on a 100GB disk.
To solve the problem, I did an "Archive and Install" using my factory disk set and went back to 10.4.5. The problem is now gone.
I think I may also have seen a similar issue on my G5 system - unexplained fan activity and possible system load. Since it is not to hand at the moment, I can't confirm this however.
Other than posting on the forum, is there any official way to let Apple know about this problem? I'm outside my phone support period on the MacBook Pro now.It is indeed strange that Activity Monitor isn't showing the "invisible" process. My only suggestion is to check its View -> Update Frequency setting & set it to the shortest available update time.
I notice with my A.M. that when it is set to the "less often" setting, the listed CPU usage does not update as frequently as the graph, leading to a somewhat similar situation: the total of the listed processes is often less than the graph value. I assume this is because the setting only applies to the list, not the graph.
Perhaps the fastest setting will "catch" the mysterious process in the act & lead to a resolution. (BTW, this behavior has been there since 10.4, so it in itself isn't related to the update.)
Regarding letting Apple know, you can use the Mac OS X Feedback form to report this as a bug, but you won't get a direct response from Apple about it.
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