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hanzoh

macrumors member
Original poster
Aug 3, 2005
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Hey,

MacBook 1,83GHz - 2GB RAM

actmon.jpg


As you can see, no process shows any activity, but the CPU shows ~50%. Where does this come from?

When I reboot it's gone, but some time later it appears magically again. First I thought it's FrontRow, but when I avoided to start use it via the remote, the CPU activity came nevertheless.

It doesn't bother that much, but I do notice that Mail needs somewhat longer to open a new window, which isn't the case when the machine freshly started.

My only open apps are Mail, Firefox, Adium and iTunes (not playing).
 
Not likely, but: Try running top in Terminal and see if something shows up, that Activity Monitor ignores.

top -o cpu will sort the result based on CPU use...
 
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