When I run activity monitor with no programs running my dock shows fluctuating usage...between 4% up to 20%. Random figures that come and go with corresponding CPU usage. A little help?

My activity monitor show random and fluctuating CPU usage at the Dock site with absolutelyno programs running. %'s fluctuate between 3 - 20 and they pretty much come and go. What might be causing this?

There's a lot of background processes running that aren't documented as Apps as such. And some of them are the Time Machine backups, Spotlight searches, all kinds of small little bits of maintenance caches, there's a lot going on. So it's not completely out of the question that this is 'normal' for a Mac. If it were 50% or more I would be concerned but if it spikes up to 20% for a second or two you are probably not in any trouble of any kind.

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at the prompt type:
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0: group:everyone deny delete,limit_inherit
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Kj

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the database have huge number of sessions with no programs running it like oracle form, some of those sessions stack in v$session table due to power failure.
restart server solve the problem, but it is not efficient.
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substr(b.sid,1,5) sid,
substr(b.serial#,1,5) ser#,
substr(b.machine,1,6) box,
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-- b.server,
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substr(b.program,1,30) program
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where
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and type='USER'
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My iBook had a strange moment, and I had to reinstall Mac OS X, which for me is still 10.3.9. However, I can no longer run Activity Monitor - the icon just bounces up and down a couple of times in the Dock, then vanishes. I've tried running it via a terminal, and received the following error message:
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Thanks!
Liana

Hi
Welcome to Discussions.
Open Disk Utility, found in Application/Utilities, and click on Repair Permissions.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5882
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I have songs that show up on my device, that come up grey with the dashed circle, and cannot be deleted.

I have songs that show up on my daughter's device, that come up grey with the dashed circle, and cannot be deleted.
I have tried:
Try:
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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Hi Gurus,
I am Working in IMWM are & giving support. Client is facing problem with this Report, as this report is not running frequently as per scheduled in Configuration settings. for e.g after 4 hrs or after 12 hrs or 1 week etc.
Does any body know how this program is running in background?
Do I need to create any Batch Job for this?
As per our developer no need of Batch job, it has to run automatically. So if anybody know this, please let me know ASAP. We need to submit solution to client.
thanks & regards,
Anant Joshi

Hi,
Maybe I'm mistaken but I can't see any sense of running LL01 as background job. I think users have to run the report themselves, and it is possible to refresh it in the report itself or by running it again.
Please check (run) the transaction in SAP and check SAP online help:
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/c6/f83aa34afa11d182b90000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
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Try checking User>Applications>Utilities>Activity Monitor and see what's using up all the CPU. If nothing shows up, then your power supply unit is faulty, leading your machine to think it's overheating. You can also check in Console to see if there's any mention of maximum temperatures being exceeded (just enter those words in the little window at the upper right of the Console window).

Too much RAM usage with no programs running

Macbook Pro-late 2009 model
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
4 gig RAM 1067 MHz DDR3
2.53 GHz Intel Core Duo 2
Bootcamp
VMWare 3.13, Windows 7
Even w/o Windows running and VMWare completely shut down, something is still gobbling up resources. See Image. My green resource aren't even at half of the memory. I used to run Win XP Pro SP2 (the only decent windows OS), and my green resources barely got beyond half even with a trading program, QB for Mac and safari running on the Mac side. Now, even if I completely shut down the windows side, including VMWare, I still don't have the same resources. What gives? I suspect Windows 7 is getting bigger and bigger (just like the other Win OS' do every time you need to update). Perhaps a migrated virus? Both the Apple store and the Microsoft store had no good answers, other than the insipid suggestion of re-installing the OS. Any big brains in here have any ideas? I should note that the Microsoft store gave me Windows 7 pro for free since they screwed up the update on XP (despite me telling them NOT to load service pack 3). I was skeptical of Win 7, and frankly my computer has not performed as well since. I only use Windows because some of my trading programs only run on Windows, and Quickbooks for Mac still *****. My QB 2004 runs better and is easier to use even now, and I am one of the first 1000 (possibly 100 people to buy QB nearly 25 years ago). Oh, and safari is constantly crashing. I would rather just use the Mac 100% of the time, but unfortunately, being in finance and accounting, that is not an option until Intuit and the like stop s*cking Microsoft's you know what, and make better programs for Mac. Mac hardware is way superior and prettier, and the OS much smoother imo, so please help. Thank you.
Grumpy Middle-aged Mac User

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For a completely correct perspective regarding the memory pie chart, think of "inactive" as essentially "free", and "free" as a resource you paid for that is going completely unused and wasted.
You will then conclude you really aren't using that much RAM. You aren't even using half of it. What you are observing is most likely the consequence of websites becoming ever more resource-hungry. That so-called progress will never be reversed, and remember that websites are created by programmers with $5000 workstations with 64 GB RAM and practically unlimited bandwidth. Their job is to please their bosses who have $10000 workstations and are easily impressed by flashy animations and other nonsense that others consider wasteful and distracting.
Oh, and safari is constantly crashing.
That is the only thing that should concern you. Safari shouldn't do that, so when it does next time post the crash report. Don't post anything below "Binary Images" - it's not useful.

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About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
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About OS X system processes - MacFixIt;
OS X Process Management- Guide to Activity Monitor - MacFixIt.

When I run activity monitor with no programs running my dock shows fluctuating usage...between 4% up to 20%. Random figures that come and go with corresponding CPU usage. A little help?

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