Passport battery drain -- 'Input Services' running at high CPU %

This is the best phone I have ever owned -- size, physical keyboard, fantastic battery life (under normal circumstances) BUT every 2-3 weeks, it begins to misbehave.
I'm not sure what the trigger is but the following happens:
1. Top RHS of the phone gets very hot.
2. Upon unlocking, the location services icon is often 'on' (before disappearing a few seconds later).
3. Device monitor shows Input Services at high CPU percentage Eg: 25% or higher.
4. Battery drains from full charge to empty in about 3 hours, irrespective of use. Charging takes hours, particularly via USB or car kit due to the high-rate of drain.
I am not running any added apps and OS is updated to latest. The only fix is to backup the phone, restore factory settings and restore data. Then 2-3 weeks later, problem repeats.
I'm convinced 'Input Services' is the culprit -- but why??? Is this service related to the physical keyboard somehow?
Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.

Hello @all,
Same problem here. Got my Passport 10 days ago.
Since the day before yesterday all was fine.

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8. Clean off the dust that's gathered. A can of compressed air helps here (I didn't have one). I used a little brush from my electric shaver kit which worked well. Once you've removed all the dust from the fan and surrounding areas proceed to the next step.
9. Reapply new lubrication. You need less than 1 drop. Be sure it covers the entire fan blade axl as this is what needs to be well lubricated. Make sure there isn't excess oil that will fly around when the axl/fan spins at high rpms. I used the only oil I had which was olive oil (for cooking!) but I do not suggest this. At the time I was doing this I didn't know my fan was the problem so I wasn't even sure I was going to relube it. You should probably use something more appropriate perhaps like 3 in 1 oil. A good idea would be to call the manufatures of these little fans and ask them. Maybe a hobby store knows of good lubricants for these purposes?
DO NOT use things like WD 40 as it's not a long term lubricant or so I've read.
10. Once your fan is now clean and oiled (make sure there isn't too much oil) reassmble the fan.
Push the fan blades/axl back into the housing shaft. Give it a few spins with your finger.
Screw together the fan housing then reclip the clips.
11. Place the now reassembled fan back into your Mac and screw it in place (3 screws).
12. Reattach the fan's electrical wiring by gently pushing it into place. Make sure you've got the right end facing down before you push it in place.
13. Once your Mac's internals are clean and reassembled, place the rear cover back on your Mac and screw it in place.
14. Double check you didn't forget anything like screws, tools, etc.
15. Boot up your Mac and monitor the temperature and fan speed using those programs.
Compare the previous temps/fan speed to the current temp/fan speed.
Run a high CPU intensive app where your computer has been slowing down.
You should now have a happy Mac
If you have this problem and this solution fixed it for you please post in this thread letting me and everyone else know!
Hope that helps.

Thanks for your lengthy reminder dude, I have a similar Mac with yours. I suspect its a software fault because it happens after I upgraded to Lion, 10.7.2.

SBS 2011 - High CPU usage - Help me Microsoft forums! You're my only hope!

My company supports a client that has a SBS 2011 server. For about the past year, we've been fighting a recurring issue with performance on this server. There are about ten local users and four remote users. The server's CPU idles at
about 60%-80% but is usally running when under *any* load from 80%-100%. If you do anything on the console, it will stay pretty much at 100%. These are not power users by any means. The server is utilized for file/printer sharing, Exchange
2010, and one flat file database application (non-SQL). SharePoint is not utilized.
Needless to say, our client is frustrated. When opening files, using their database application, or doing anything Exchange-related, there is a large amount of lag on the client side. First, here are the server's specs:
Make:Dell PowerEdge T420
OS: SBS 2011 Standard SP1
CPU: 2 - Intel Xeon E5-2407
Memory: 32GB
RAID: RAID 1 - Operating System (C:)/Data Volume (E:) | RAID 5 - Data Volume (D:)
Here is what we have tried to resolve this to finality:
* Doubled resources - Initially the server had a single physical processor and 16GB of memory. While these specs alone should have been fine, and were fine when the server was installed, we had periods of time where the server would just sit all day at
100% usage. We doubled the resources and while this seemed like it would fix the issue, we are still seeing abnormally high processor usage.
* Removed all monitoring tools, antivirus, and backup software - As part of our testing, we removed our monitoring agent (LabTech) and antivirus (GFI Vipre). Mozy is utilized for an off-site backup so that was disabled. No dice.
* Verified updates - We made absolutely sure the server was 100% patched.
* Malware/Virus/Rootkit checks - We have ran scans checking for any potential issues with security.
* Ran MBSA and MBCA to fix any issues with the server's configuration.
There is no single process which is using all of the CPU, or we would simply be able to narrow it down. Our calls to Microsoft support have yielded no answers. The last call ended with Microsoft stating that a SBS server should always be running
at high CPU usage. Meanwhile, we have many other clients with less-beefy servers, with more users, who have no issues like these.
So, I'm turning to you all. I will gladly provide logs, configuration settings, even remote assistance sessions if you all can help shed some light on what might be causing my issues.
Thank you!

Some comments/ideas:
How long was the server running after this screenshot? I ask because store.exe is only got a 1GB of RAM which is really low - it should grab most of the RAM within a few hours.
The server was up for about 12 hours. I believe an adjustment was made before to limit the Exchange memory usage.
Strange that SearchIndexer (wsearch service) is so high although that may be a startup condition.
The LT* processes seem to be a 3rd party monitoring tool - no idea why it would ever need that much CPU though (I thought you disabled this?).
We had, but we cannot go forever without monitoring our client's server. It has been pulled off in the past and results on performance are pretty much the same.
The taskmgr process run by amnet_admin has used a lot of total CPU Time. What is it? (can't see the command line).
That's the user I was logged in as when I took the screenshot. Even the task manager seems to eat up the CPU.
The sqlserver process right above it is also busy - may want to look at the command line and figure out which SQL database that is (SBS has 3 - WSUS, Sharepoint, and SBS monitoring)
I believe that's the SharePoint database. They don't currently use their site. Would you recommend a removal and reinstallation? I would not completely remove as I know SBS doesn't like you removing parts of the complete package.
Strange that vds.exe is 10% - that is the interface to the disk management interface IIRC. Perhaps your monitoring service has gone awry here - definitely lose it.
I'll see about pulling it off and I'll see if there are any improvements.
-- Al

High cpu C4948

Could you explain please reason first ACL,log unreach.
No log key in ACL, switch has a lot of VLAN with ACL in.
Packets Received by Packet Queue
Queue Total 5 sec avg 1 min avg 5 min avg 1 hour avg
L2/L3Control 236758309 36 34 35 34
Host Learning 6011600 0 0 0 0
L3 Fwd Low 2424793938 2 0 1 8
L2 Fwd Low 201893895 34 33 36 43
L3 Rx Low 34737942 19 3 3 5
RPF Failure 494739 0 0 0 0
ACL log, unreach 27408733812 2770 13291 11964 6553
ACL sw processing 520 0 0 0 0
Packets Dropped by Packet Queue
Queue Total 5 sec avg 1 min avg 5 min avg 1 hour avg
L2/L3Control 1509428 0 0 0 0
Host Learning 24358337 0 0 0 0
L3 Fwd Low 32625 0 0 0 0
L2 Fwd Low 29248805 0 0 0 0
L3 Rx Low 19362 0 0 0 0
ACL log, unreach 4465098816 5 410 345 339
Thank you

Looks to be like some issue iwth your ACL.
To help isolate the issue, I would request you to answer the following
questions:
1. Since how long the device has been running with high Cpu?
2. Have you made any hardware/software or configuration changes on these
devices which lead to high CPU utilization?
To isolate the issue, I would request you to send me the following:
1. Show proc cpu sorted | ex 0.00 (3-4 times)
2. Show proc cpu history
3. Show platform cpu packet statistics all
4. Show platform health
Additionally I would also like you to:
#debug platform packet all receive buffer
Wait 30 seconds and capture the command below:
#show platform cpu packet buffered (Twice)
#undebug all
Note: All these outputs should be taken while the CPU indicates high.
Please see a very handy document on handling high CPU on 4500 switches
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps663/products_tech_note0918
6a00804cef15.shtml
HTH

Clamd high CPU useage

I have an Intel Xserve running 10.4.11
I followed Alex's tutorials some months back and upgraded clamav, amavisd and spamassassin.
All has been working well and I have been pleased with the performance.
However I decided approx 6 weeks ago to move from using clamscan to clamd.
On and off I have been getting exceptionally high CPU useage from clamd which requires me to kill off the clamd process as everything almost grinds to a halt.
I initially put it down to using Carbon Copy Cloner at night, but it has been getting more frequent during the day to the point where mail was just being queued.
I killed clamd again
ran
sudo /bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
sudo /bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
but then all my incoming mail started going deferred
so I again reloaded amavisd.plist
then ran postsuper -r ALL, to requeue all the mail. This worked for a few minutes then clamd started going high CPU again.
Also in logs I started seeing in mail.log
Mar 25 12:30:50 fileserver postfix/smtp[147]: 502232589239: to=<[email protected]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=2616, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=00791-05, virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED: Clam Antivirus-clamd av-scanner FAILED: CODE(0x1801270) Too many retries to talk to /tmp/clamd (Can't connect to UNIX socket /tmp/clamd: Connection refused) at (eval 51) line 310. at (eval 51) line 511.; ClamAV-clamscan av-scanner FAILED: /usr/local/bin/clamscan DIED on signal 11 (000b) at (eval 51) line 511. (in reply to end of DATA command))
So I commented out the entry for using clamd in /etc/amavisd.conf
and rolled back to previous version of clamv.
I am now getting mail in, and although very brief high clamscan usage it is working, the queue has been cleared.
But now I am getting no logging in anything apart from one file, /var/log/asl.log.76
this has thousands of entries
[Time 2008.03.24 22:08:47 UTC] [Facility local6] [Sender clamd] [PID 18032] [Message accept() failed: Too many open files;] [Level 3] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host fileserver]
syslogd is also running very high CPU.
Has anyone any ideas what caused my initial problems and what I may have done now to break the logging. ???

Thanks Alex
will schedule downtime to upgrade.
update
Reboot, again, of server cleared my logs problem (what a popular person I am )

Passport battery drain -- 'Input Services' running at high CPU %

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