iTunes 10.2.2/MBP 2011/15" 100% CPU at IDLE

[tosehee]

Hello.

Sorry if this is a duplicate post.

I've been searching for an hour or so, but can't figure any posts that is relevant to this issue.

I am using latest 2011 MBP 15" with 2.3ghz/8gb/250GB SSD.

When I am not running the iTunes, everything seems to be fine (except some stability, but I am hoping the new EFI and MBP update would fix this).

But, whenever I just run the iTunes, it consumes the CPU at 100%, causing the temperature to go up to 80c, and the fan to speed up to 5000.

Again, this is idle itunes here. I am not listening or anything. Just letting it alone cause this to happen.

I have tried to uninstall the iTunes completely, and re-install. Nothing.

I have tried to re-install the latest MBP update. Nothing.

I am at the loss here, and I have no clue what other things I can do.

Anyone with any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

[tosehee]

Removing all musics from iTunes doesn't help either.. Just tried with no luck.


Enabling/Disabling Index doesn't help either.

 

[mape2k]

Since when do you have your Macbook Pro? Did this issue appear all the sudden or from the start? Did you have a fresh install of the OS or did you migrate from a previous laptop?
Try disabling internet connection and re-run itunes again. Does it still use 100%?

 

[mrwonkers]

Exactly the same thing happening here - I have actually created a post on this exact issue before and had no responses. I have found the issue only occurs in coverflow view - when switching to list view this eradicates the problem, I also have a fairly large library of around 112000 tracks. Does this issue occur in coverflow view for you and how large is the library in question?

If anybody else has a solution I'd love to hear it.

Hello.

Sorry if this is a duplicate post.

I've been searching for an hour or so, but can't figure any posts that is relevant to this issue.

I am using latest 2011 MBP 15" with 2.3ghz/8gb/250GB SSD.

When I am not running the iTunes, everything seems to be fine (except some stability, but I am hoping the new EFI and MBP update would fix this).

But, whenever I just run the iTunes, it consumes the CPU at 100%, causing the temperature to go up to 80c, and the fan to speed up to 5000.

Again, this is idle itunes here. I am not listening or anything. Just letting it alone cause this to happen.

I have tried to uninstall the iTunes completely, and re-install. Nothing.

I have tried to re-install the latest MBP update. Nothing.

I am at the loss here, and I have no clue what other things I can do.

Anyone with any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Macsavvytech]

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Sounds like iTunes is generating something. Try leaving it for a couple of hours. Just poking at something that is odd here, don't have any personal experience.

 

[tosehee]

Thanks for the replies.

To answer your questions..

a. Is it a migrated system or new? I tried on both migrated, and I just re-installed from scratch, same issue.
b. Did this happen all of sudden? I never used itunes until now. I work pretty heavily and I didn't get to use the itunes until just recently. So, to answer your question, it could have been, or it could have been with the itunes updates.
c. Cover flow: I removed all the musics, and same issue. So I doubt it's cover flow. I also just list them all in list view, and same issue

Is there any other question that I am missing?

 

[tosehee]

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Sounds like iTunes is generating something. Try leaving it for a couple of hours. Just poking at something that is odd here, don't have any personal experience.

I have left it over night with 0 musics, 0 videos, 0 ring tones, 0 pictures, and same issue prevails...

 

[tosehee]

Disabling the index doesn't help either.

 

[Consultant]

Not normal. Contact Apple for support.

 

[daneoni]

When you removed iTunes are you sure you removed everything? Also do you have any plug-ins for it installed? Did you check activity monitor and see if it was iTunes the app or iTunes helper.

Also iTunes may be trying to find a file/folder that has gone missing or an iDevice backup has gone corrupt.

Just throwing out random ideas.

 

[tosehee]

When you removed iTunes are you sure you removed everything? Also do you have any plug-ins for it installed? Did you check activity monitor and see if it was iTunes the app or iTunes helper.

Also iTunes may be trying to find a file/folder that has gone missing or an iDevice backup has gone corrupt.

Just throwing out random ideas.

Yes. I am sure I removed everything.
Yes. I have no other plug-ins installed
Yes. I checked the activity monitor the iTunes is the only one that's taking 100% of the cpu.

I removed all the iDevice backups and same issue.

 

[daneoni]

^

What about permission repairs and/or fsck. If still no dice then...

Time to contact Apple support.

 

[tosehee]

^

What about permission repairs and/or fsck. If still no dice then...

Time to contact Apple support.

Sadly these didn't help either..

I went to local apple store, and they can't figure it out.

 

[Krafty]

Mine does something similar, on startup, the CPU shoots to 80-100%, and the program is unresponsive. But I noticed that its sometimes Last.FM scrobbler doing this as it sometimes spikes afterwards, then the program becomes responsive.

Not sure if its a program that could be tied to iTunes.