Video Chat causes high temps and fan speeds

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I discovered this issue independent of this thread, and can confirm that killing KiesWifiAgent will instantly take care of DirectoryService's high CPU load.  You'll also free up a bunch of memory.  On my MBP (8 GB RAM), Kies had leaked its way to consuming 1.5 GB of memory.

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