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castaway
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: CPU in Activity Monitor |
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| Activity Monitor shows my CPU % idle hovering around 40% all the time. It never goes above 50%. This doesn't seem normal! It seems like it used to hang around 90%. I have a 1.42GHz Mac mini with 1GB RAM. |
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caulktel
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Location: Eagle Point OR USA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| I just checked mine and it was running between 94-98%. I have the 1.25GHz W/512 ram. It would seem that something is keeping your cpu busy. |
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aristobrat
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:39 am Post subject: Re: CPU in Activity Monitor |
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| castaway wrote: | | Activity Monitor shows my CPU % idle hovering around 40% all the time. It never goes above 50%. This doesn't seem normal! It seems like it used to hang around 90%. I have a 1.42GHz Mac mini with 1GB RAM. |
Mine never hangs anywhere near 90% unless I'm doing something CPU intensive, like ripping a DVD or something like that. 90% always makes the fan run full blast -- I'd go bonkers if it was always like that.  |
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devo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| How many widgets are you running? Some widgets can really hog up your resources. I completely killed my Dashboard with TinkerTool. |
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aristobrat
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| I thought that Widgets weren't supposed to use any CPU% when the dashboard isn't displayed? |
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picaman
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| aristobrat wrote: | | I thought that Widgets weren't supposed to use any CPU% when the dashboard isn't displayed? |
Maybe they're not supposed to, but some definitely do!
http://www.123macmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2000&highlight=
Check Activity Monitor and kill those rogue widgets 
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robhfla
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| The widgets can also use a good amount of memory. Even when you quit them. They still use some memory just because they are placed on the dashboard pane. |
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picaman
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g5g5
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: Dashboard |
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You can also use TinkerTool to "Kill" Deactivate the Dashboard under General.
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caulktel
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Location: Eagle Point OR USA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I installed a small program named "Disable Tiger Features" that allows you to disable Dashboard or Spotlight. It works real good and frees up a lot of resources. If you want to use either of them you just click enable and your back on. |
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cinemafia
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Niiiiice...I've never had any use for the dashboard, and killing seems to have a noticeable snappierness™. |
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