CPU gnomes.
April 7th, 2007
I guess I meant to write something more meaningful as my first nontrivial post in a month.
My poor little PowerBook G4 (Al, 1.3GHz, 768MB) is suffering. Something is eating cycles, and I can’t figure out what. It’s been like this for a week or two. Take a look:
Not enough information? Fine, here’s a top listing, showing that I’m barely running anything, and that the CPU figures don’t seem to add up:
Processes: 86 total, 2 running, 84 sleeping... 277 threads 17:32:32
Load Avg: 1.04, 1.14, 1.03 CPU usage: 6.3% user, 54.4% sys, 39.3% idle
SharedLibs: num = 0, resident = 0B code, 0B data, 0B LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 0, resident = 0B + 0B private, 0B shared
PhysMem: 104M wired, 426M active, 225M inactive, 755M used, 12.1M free
VM: 7.24G + 0B 396046(0) pageins, 207089(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
249 iTerm 5.8% 72:35.81 12 144 0 0K 0K 34.3M 217M
17204 Camino 5.6% 19:59.54 8 131 0 0K 0K 69.4M 324M
73 WindowServ 4.8% 3:24:05 2 409 0 0K 0K 52.2M- 282M-
239 SystemUISe 4.6% 3:37:24 3 276 0 0K 0K 4.09M 154M
16990 Adium 3.0% 5:45.49 11 457 0 0K 0K 32.2M 225M
18850 top 2.0% 0:00.78 1 18 0 0K 0K 1.27M 27.0M
0 kernel_tas 1.2% 72:42.65 47 2 0 0K 0K 88.9M 933M
252 Missing Sy 0.9% 24:56.78 4 110 0 0K 0K 6.40M 214M
245 Google Not 0.9% 46:21.05 7 225 0 0K 0K 20.7M 188M
255 VirtueDesk 0.3% 19:31.72 5 120 0 0K 0K 16.8M 217M
253 SSHKeychai 0.2% 1:11.46 5 105 0 0K 0K 1.60M 145M
18495 tbupddmx 0.2% 0:10.83 12 71 0 0K 0K 8.96M 99.4M
254 Quicksilve 0.1% 6:15.76 7 146 0 0K 0K 31.1M 225M
18357 PopupDictD 0.0% 0:01.93 4 90 0 0K 0K 21.8M 149M
18504 CuckooChim 0.0% 0:03.56 5 184 0 0K 0K 7.62M 144M
18607 Keynote 0.0% 4:54.02 7 155 0 0K 0K 136M 362M
134 ARDHelper 0.0% 0:25.03 1 9 0 0K 0K 384K 26.6M
240 Finder 0.0% 5:17.88 5 325 0 0K 0K 18.9M 213M
178 ntpd 0.0% 0:32.59 1 11 0 0K 0K 712K 26.9M
220 httpd 0.0% 0:16.81 1 13 0 0K 0K 3.22M 40.7M
170 AppleFileS 0.0% 0:28.47 7 68 0 0K 0K 2.16M 36.6M
18824 mdimport 0.0% 0:00.90 4 62 0 0K 0K 3.89M 40.6M
18715 bash 0.0% 0:00.05 1 14 0 0K 0K 876K 27.2M
18714 login 0.0% 0:00.02 1 16 0 0K 0K 564K 26.9M
18694 bash 0.0% 0:00.19 1 14 0 0K 0K 872K 27.2M
18693 login 0.0% 0:00.03 1 16 0 0K 0K 556K 26.9M
18503 System Eve 0.0% 0:00.77 1 61 0 0K 0K 4.35M 134M
17929 bash 0.0% 0:00.07 1 14 0 0K 0K 856K 27.2M
17928 login 0.0% 0:00.02 1 16 0 0K 0K 504K 26.9M
17224 bash 0.0% 0:00.61 1 14 0 0K 0K 856K 27.2M
Any idea what’s eating all my CPU? I don’t know when this started, exactly—could have been when I upped to Mac OS X 10.4.9. My HD has been in semi-OK shape since my last reformat (to eat all the bad blocks); no IO errors show up in system.log.