No comments on this issue, eh? I suppose you'd have to be a serious OS X geek to know about something like this. What I find when I Google is that it's: Something to do with the Classic environment, which I've never allowed to load on the machine. Some anonymous app that consumes massive amounts of CPU cycles. These apps are not anonymous since their icons are right there beside the (null), and they use the CPU about the way I would expect them to.
This is a new(refurb) notebook from Apple running 10.5, so I wonder if it's a glitch that an update will fix. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a curiosity I've noticed lately. Beside the symbols for the > Thunderbird, Sunbird, and Audio Hijack applications in Activity Monitor, it > calls the process name (null) instead of their names. These apps seem to be > working properly and quitting them a restarting them does not help. I did a > little Googling and did not find anything helpful except that the system is > not recognizing their names. > Does anyone know what's going on? > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
