What Is This Process?

[bobber205]

I noticed this morning after running the "foldering" app, the one for solving cancer all night, that my MB was running the fan quite a bit. I quit the app and let it sleep. But when I came back and I woke it up, it still ran the fan.

Hmm.

So I checked Activity Monitor and something is taking over 80% of all cycles of both cores... ?

I have no idea what this is. Pics attached below.
Should I quit those processes?

 

[benthewraith]

I noticed this morning after running the "foldering" app, the one for solving cancer all night, that my MB was running the fan quite a bit. I quit the app and let it sleep. But when I came back and I woke it up, it still ran the fan.

Hmm.

So I checked Activity Monitor and something is taking over 80% of all cycles of both cores... ?

I have no idea what this is. Pics attached below.
Should I quit those processes?

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/filedb/fahcore_78.exe-15625.html

This is from the Folding@Home project where spare cpu cycles are used to cure cancer and other similar diseases. It is from Stanford University.

 

[bobber205]

Ok. Thanks for the info.

As soon as I quit both of those, the fan stopped.

 

[bobber205]

How do I get those darn files to stop coming up every time I reset?

 

[thegreatluke]

In System Preferences, select "Accounts" and navigate to "Login Items."

Then remove the application from the list.

 

[bobber205]

In System Preferences, select "Accounts" and navigate to "Login Items."

Then remove the application from the list.

The app isn't in the startup list...

 

[MacMarvin]

Not all apps that launch at startup are in the startup items list unfortunately. That comes from the unix side of OS X. For example, if you type open -e /etc/rc in terminal, there is a whole list of things that happen at startup that are not in the startup items folder. /etc/rc is for system stuff and I think /etc/rc.local is for 3rd party tools:

http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-rc.html

Anyway, I've read that the folding at home installer also installs a script to let you get rid of it. Try opening a terminal window (/Applications/Utilities/terminal) and typing rid then hit return. More info here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-48183.html