wine anyone?

[douglh]

Seriously, my Macbook has slowed to a crawl, and beachballs are everywhere! iStat is reporting "wine" as being the memory hog, at anywhere from 90% to 200% (dual-core). I have had wine installed but took it off months ago. No vm app is running and I have reboooted several times. Looking in Finder and searching for 'wine' gives several 'wine.png' but no app.

Any idea what's going on?

 

[spinnerlys]

Have you tried the method to search for files outlined in the following quote?

To properly uninstall applications:

To manually remove an application and all associated files:

1. Launch Finder and search for the app name (hopefully unique, such as Skype)
2. You can narrow the search to specific folders or search your whole Mac
3. Searching "File Name" vs "Contents" usually provides better results.
4. Click the + button below the search term to add criteria
5. Click the "Album" drop-down and select "System files"
6. Click the "Don't include" and change to "include"
7. Sort by name, kind, date, etc. to identify components of the app, such as folders, .plist files, cache files. etc.
8. Delete all files and folders related to the app.
9. Don't empty your Trash until you've determined that everything is working OK, in case you need to restore something you deleted by accident.
10. A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.

from Best way to FULLY DELETE a program?

 

[douglh]

Yes, I did all that but this time deleted _all_ files that showed up in the search, and while they all looked like innocent .png's etc, memory & cpu usage has returned to normal. Thanks.