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CPU Usage High

AcesHigh87

AcesHigh87

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Jan 11, 2009
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OKay so I turned on my Macbook (2.4 gHz White) today and noticed the fan was running very high. iStat has it set at somewhere around 6000rpm. Anyway, I was looking through iStat to see what could cause this and found that my CPU usage for user is up around 90% plus. This is odd though cuz all I have open is Firefox and Mercury Messenger. What I was wondering is why would the usage be so high and how can I avoid it cuz frankly with the fan running this fast I get the feeling I might burn it out.
 
Is time machine doing a first backup? In the magnifying glass in the top right of the screen, is there a flashing dot inside?
 
Well I looked through my Activity monitor and it has showed me that Mercury Messenger is taking up a lot of CPU, probably because it needs to be mounted my guess) but it was never doing this until yesterday so I'm not sure why it has decided to do so now
 
Consultant said:
View All Processes.

Reboot?

Try a different messenger. Adium is a good one.
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I had Adium for awhile but never really enjoyed it, plus it didn't have video chat. I like Mercury, and it has never caused me a problem until yesterday when it decided to rack my CPU up. With it closed I run at like 4% CPU with it open it's at 95%.

I guess I need to find another messenger, would be nice if the MSN one was decent but it's like 7 generations behind the Microsoft one
 
AcesHigh87 said:
I had Adium for awhile but never really enjoyed it, plus it didn't have video chat. I like Mercury, and it has never caused me a problem until yesterday when it decided to rack my CPU up. With it closed I run at like 4% CPU with it open it's at 95%.

I guess I need to find another messenger, would be nice if the MSN one was decent but it's like 7 generations behind the Microsoft one
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I just run MSN in OS X :) No issues, cam works and everything.
 
AcesHigh87 said:
How, the MSN for Mac doesn't have half the features regular MSN does, including cam? I got Adium again, even though I'm not a fan of it BTW
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I'm fairly sure it does have video chat. I seem to remember the feature being called "Video call" or something. If MSN doesn't work for you, you could try Yahoo messenger or Skype. Both of these have video that works pretty well.
 
miles01110 said:
I'm fairly sure it does have video chat. I seem to remember the feature being called "Video call" or something. If MSN doesn't work for you, you could try Yahoo messenger or Skype. Both of these have video that works pretty well.
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It's the new Beta that has video chat in it. The current version doesn't support video chat.

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