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It looks like it's part of the Quick Look feature. Have you tried logging out/in, or restarting your computer?
This is a constant problem. I have tried a restart. Tried killing the process, stated back up immediately, 100% CPU usage, settled back down to 12% after a few minutes.
- Launch Activity Monitor
- Change "My Processes" at the top to "All Processes"
- Click on the CPU column heading once or twice, so the arrow points downward (highest values on top).
- Click on the System Memory tab at the bottom.
- Take a screen shot of the whole Activity Monitor window, then scroll down to see the rest of the list, take another screen shot
- Post your screenshots.
office.qlgenerator is what the system uses to generate quick-looks of Office documents. Lots of other applications generator quick look plugins; check the various QuickLook folders in the libraries in ~/, / , and /System.
For one thing, you have significant page outs, which I wouldn't expect to see on a system with 12GB of RAM. Page outs are cumulative since your last restart, so restart your computer and track page outs under your normal workload (the apps, browser pages and documents you normally would have open). If your page outs are significant (say 1GB or more) under normal use, you may benefit from more RAM. I haven't been able to find any information about that QuickLookSatellite process. Check the first 3 items in the following list for any possible related items.
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