Mystery Python Process (eating memory & CPU)

Hi -
I have been using my 1.83GHz Intel iMac for a day or two. I migrated data from my iBook G4 and I have to say that it went very smoothly. But today the machine has seemed SUPER-slow, and my SysStat widget indicated consistent very high CPU load.
When I did a top listing in terminal it was confirmed. I am reluctant to kill a process that is a mystery, but this sucker seems to be giant. It varied from 50-55% of CPU, and has left me with 6mb of free memory! I never saw this on my iBook.
Any ideas what could cause a Python memory leak / looping process? How would I diagnose it? I just tried to kill it and it won't die. Please look at the top screen-cap here (PID 5079 is the one):
http://www.lewismiller.info/upload/top.jpg
Help!
The process remains even after I shut everything down.

Looks like it was an errant thread from Tomato. Restarting the machine fixed it, and the app now seems to be behaving better. Ta!

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 1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
 8 GB RAM
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 AMD Radeon HD 6770M - VRAM: 1024 MB
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 AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
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 OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 0:5:9
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 EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
 Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (414.88 GB free)
 Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
 MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8
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 Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
 Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
 Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
 Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
 Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
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 Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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You are missing the basic point that I was trying to make. In terms of performance measurement, it says nothing. It does not say GOOD. It does not say BAD.
Why?
An idle CPU can be a result of exceedingly poor performance caused by process serialisation (like in PL/SQL doing your own sequences by locking a table to do a SELECT MAX() to get next sequence number to use). Seen this one myself and most recently on a Superdome that showed idle CPU utilisation with the performance being excruciatingly slow.
An idle CPU can be simply because of no work to be done.
An idle CPU could be because of an I/O bottleneck as a 200 parallel query processes all hit the same I/O channels.. and then have to sit back and wait for the I/O calls to be completed. Saw this one often on Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) many years ago.
Similar situation for a heavily utilised CPU. The actual utilisation figure does not tell you how much of that CPU time used, is used effectively by optimally designed and coded processes.. and how must is wasted by poorly design and coded processes.
From a performance perspective, it alone says nothing.
And this is what the OP says - he's seeing 95+% CPU utilisation when running an export. Is it a performance problem? If so, what can he do about it?
The answer to which is, identify if there is an actual performance problem as 95% CPU utilisation alone does not tell us whether that is good and efficient usage of CPU time, or abuse and wasted use of CPU time.

COVER FLOW EATS MEMORY

After hours and hours of troubleshooting my iMac with Leopard the following is definite:
With ACTIVITY MONITOR running and COVER FLOW used in FINDER the iMAC continually eats up system memory. In addition, the FINDER process increases memory usage as well.
FINDER can be force quit and then relaunched to clear its memory usage (which continues to increase as file browsing with COVER FLOW continues) but SYSTEM MEMORY is not freed after a relaunch of FINDER.
I ended up running w/ 2.5 gigs RAM usage when COVER FLOW was enabled regardless of program usage, etc....and the usage would hardly come down
There is a definite MEMORY MANAGEMENT issue with COVER FLOW.
Be warned. Check it out yourself. Apple, please fix these issues....soon.

I am noticing some increased memory, one of the bigger things that I am seeing is a greater processor load from the Quick Look Server process. I have also noticed that this process is only noticeable when in cover flow mode.
in addition to this I have noticed a much large CPU usage when the files being displayed are video files. in some cases windows media files and also files that quicktime would load.
doing some tests I have found that the format of the video files does effect the CPU usage.
mp4 files seem to be the fasest
mov files behind that
avi files next
wmv files (assume Flip4Mac is installed.)
also it does not seem that the Quick Look Server is doing any caching, load the directory let the cover flow view fully load (Quick Look Server process is not in the top processes list). click on a different directory let the cover flow view fully load(Quick Look Server process is not in the top processes list). click on the original directory, Quick Look Server appears to do the loading work again.
is anyone else seeing this?

Mail Can't Open & com.apple.internetaccount process hogging 100% CPU

Desperately seeking answers after Mavericks install..
My mail crashed and now won't open at all. I've tried most (if not all) the suggestions posted by others. Haven't tried deleting and reinstalling mail yet, as this will be my last resort since I have a work account in it that is not on IMAP.
And another troubling issue is my macbook's fan is going crazy and feels like its overheating.
Looking at "Activity Monitor" I see a process "com.apple.internetaccounts" that is taking 100% CPU and 1.6GB of memory!!
No idea what this process is and can't seem to quit it.
PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks in advance
Using EtreCheck, pls see below report:
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Top Processes by Memory:
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 180 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
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 111 MB Safari
 49 MB Dock
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 37 MB mds_stores
 37 MB Activity Monitor
 33 MB Finder
 25 MB com.apple.WebKit.Networking
Virtual Memory Statistics
 35 MB Free RAM
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 252 MB Page-ins
 840 KB Page-outs

@Drewli77 yup that's it. When Mail opened I chose Google/Gmail and let Mail set the account up for me.
Before doing that I had noticed com.apple.internetaccounts hogging the CPU. I went into System Preferences > Internet Accounts, waited 10 minutes for the spinning ball to stop, then deleted the Google account in there. There was only one Google account in there, despite the fact that I have four Google accounts set up in Mac Mail. Anyway this one account seemed to be what was slowing down that preference pane. After deleting Accounts.plist I re-added my accounts in Mail, which added them to the Internet Accounts preference pane, but now that preference pane (and Mail) open just fine without hogging resources.
What annoys me is the fact that hitting Delete on a message sends it to Trash, which in Mavericks corresponds to Gmail's Trash, meaning it gets purged every month (regardless of the setting you choose in Mac Mail). I've been using Option-Delete to Archive it, but I wish I could just use Delete for that, since I always Archive and rarely Trash messages. I would set another folder to be used for Trash, but sadly, all of the options under Mailbox > "Use this mailbox for" are greyed out.

OAMessageFileUploadBean eating memory

I've implemented an upload page using OAMessageFileUploadBean going to a BLOB column in a table. It all works fine except for one thing - when I upload very big files (100s of MB) the memory of the JVM goes up accordingly and eventually runs out.
I'm confused because against the OAMessageFileUploadBean I've set data type = BLOB, set the view instance, and set the view attribute to the name of the BLOB column. The developer guide says that if these are set "the file content would not be cached in the data object", so I don't suppose it's that which is eating memory.
I imagined that when the upload servlet is populating the new VO instance for my table, it would pass the data through the BlobDomain attribute directly into the BLOB column of the table using io streams, without manifesting it in JVM memory. Maybe this is incorrect or maybe the upload servlet itself is reading all uploaded data into memory?
Any help or clarifications gratefully received!
Thanks
S.

Run Activity Monitor and set it to show all processes
To terminate processes, you can hold down Command + Option + Escape
Allan

Safari eating memory...yes even good old Safari!

I have noticed this only recently, but activies monitor show a large amount of memory consumed by safari and safari web content and the name of websites I'm browsing. (http://discussions.apple.com and mail.google.com etc. ) Even when only 2-3 tabs are opened. And the first time I noticed that my memory pressure has turned orange.
Can I prevent this.
I know I should upgrade RAM but I haven't suffered from this issue before and 4GB ram is quite enough for me

I've done lots of etrechecking my self , removed useless plugins, extensions, launch agents , daemons and what not! I even had an adware...!
Anyways,
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated 22 March 2015 12:51:18 am IST
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.
Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.
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 Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
 Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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 Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
 Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
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 Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
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Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
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10.1.3 memory/CPU usage problems

I recently migrated from JDev 9.0.5.2 to 10.1.3.0.4 and impressed with the new features and functionality.
However I've noticed the interface seems significantly slower (eg. code insight and simply inserting a new line of code is much slower), and the memory footprint seems to continually grow. Seeing it at >300M is not unusual.
There are also times when JDev seems to simply hang, and when I look a the JDev process in WinXP, the memory usage grows seemingly out of control as well as gobbling CPU cycles. My only option to kill the process. I'm using a 2.6G Pentium, 1G RAM, WinXP Prof and JDK 1.5.0_05.
Are there known problems with JDev's memory/CPU usage, or known options I can turn off to improve performance?
TIA

I don't have the memory monitor extension and have turned off all non-essential extensions but still see the memory-growth problem.
One odd thing I noticed is the JDev process on WinXP grows by 2-3MB each time a breakpoint is hit. I verified that same behavior doesn't exist in JDev 9.0.5.2 for the same project, and happens no matter which J2SE I select for the 10.1.3 project (JDK 1.4 or 1.5) or which runtime VM (hotspot or ojvm).

Disconnected users eating 25% CPU time

Hi,
Some times my wife stay logged in on our common computer (she wants keep open her files). When I log in her account is disconnected. If I do not so any think on the computer the CPU load is about 25%. I checked the task manager, my wife's disconnected account
eating this CPU time. I checked the process, it is "Windows Logon User Interface Host".
I have 4 core CPU. It seems there is thread in the "Windows Logon User Interface Host" which is in an infinite loop. I am using Windows 8.1 with the latest updates.
It would be nice, if a Windows service does not eat CPU time just for nothing.
Best Regards.
László Nemesszeghy

Hi，
Do you use remote desktop connection? sometime, a incompatible 3 party remote desktop application can cause a high logonui.exe cpu usage.
And software like A-Tuning can also cause this issue, if you have this softwware installed, I suggest you uninstall them, then test again.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

LibreOffice: oosplash.bin eating 100% CPU

Is anyone having this problem? I open some file in LibreOffice and after some minutes oosplash.bin begin eating 100% CPU. Killing the process solve the issue.

mcrae wrote:I just noticed this problem - quick search and here is the answer - It's why I always end up back with Arch
Not to get too OT, but I was just thinking the same thing. I recently started having this problem and decided to search around for solutions. It is causing my little netbook some serious trouble, and, since I bought the netbook for schoolwork, I can't just quit using LibreOffice on it.
It is always nice seeing other users with the same problems posting solutions. I love the Arch community just as much as I love Arch Linux, itself.
Back OT: the one in /usr was already set to 0, for me as well. Changing the one in /etc doesn't seem to change anything, though.
I tried running
lowriter --nologo
and I get two processes: 'oosplash.bin --writer --nologo' and 'soffice.bin --writer --nologo'. Sending SIGTERM to oosplash.bin doesn't close Writer. Not sure what the point of '--nologo' really was. Not sure if I still get the same 100% CPU usage, though.

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