Ok guys, here's the deal. Randomly, i wasn't doing anything specific -- my system starts getting sluggish. I check the activity viewer -- wow, finder is at 150% CPU!
I have scoured the internet for fixes, and franky, I have tried them all (except one -- which I may need help with -- more on that later).
System: Snow Leopard with a Mac Pro (Twelve Core 2.66 Westmere)
This is what I have tried and the results:
I analyzed the finders cpu pattern, it goes like this. If active, its always between 70 and 150% cpu usage. If i kill it, and stay 100% idle -- it goes from 0-ish% to 100+% slowly, and the Real Memory column in activity viewer goes from 0mb to ~2gb+ slowly, and when it gets around there, it dies and cycles all over again.
Here's where I need help from people smarter than me in this area. What are some methods I can use to trace what's happening in finder?
I am pretty new to mac and this has been a big blow to me -- I am loving the rest of it after being on windows for over 17 years.
Would appreciate any help I can get!
Thanks,
-Sirocco
I have scoured the internet for fixes, and franky, I have tried them all (except one -- which I may need help with -- more on that later).
System: Snow Leopard with a Mac Pro (Twelve Core 2.66 Westmere)
This is what I have tried and the results:
- Trashing com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, com.apple.loginwindow.plist. -- NO FIX
- Trashing ALL apple.* namespaced .plist files -- NO FIX
- Turning off "calculate all sizes" in finder -- NO FIX
- Turning off "show view options" in finder -- NO FIX
- Disabling all startup items -- NO FIX
- Unplugging external hard drives -- NO FIX
- Getting rid of all data on desktop. -- NO FIX
- Repair Disk Permissions -- NO FIX
I analyzed the finders cpu pattern, it goes like this. If active, its always between 70 and 150% cpu usage. If i kill it, and stay 100% idle -- it goes from 0-ish% to 100+% slowly, and the Real Memory column in activity viewer goes from 0mb to ~2gb+ slowly, and when it gets around there, it dies and cycles all over again.
Here's where I need help from people smarter than me in this area. What are some methods I can use to trace what's happening in finder?
I am pretty new to mac and this has been a big blow to me -- I am loving the rest of it after being on windows for over 17 years.
Would appreciate any help I can get!
Thanks,
-Sirocco
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