On May 7, 2013, at 2:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > G5 dual 1.8/10.5. Lately Activity Monitor shows pmTool to be running > as high as 18% of CPU. I do use multiple browsers, and a few months > ago I used Onyx to clear the Spotlight cache. But that was months ago. > What can I do to get pmTool under control?
Stop running Activity Monitor? :-) pmTool is the program Activity Monitor runs to enumerate processes: <http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/background-processes.html> It will be active in proportion to the number of processes you're running at any given time multiplied by the Update frequency, sso if yiou have a lot of processes, and you're updating very often it eats up CPU just trying to keep up. (like when you run 'top' at the command line, it's usually right there near the top of CPU usage…) If you set your Update Frequency to 'Less Often' it should drop down. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
