On Aug 20, 2007, at 13:01, Lee Larson wrote: > On Aug 20, at 12:29 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > >> After a brief rest, the kernel task manager has decided to use >> most all the cycles, so simple tasks like launching preferences >> are taking, oh, 5 minutes a crack. > > You have me confused -- not that this is unusual by itself. What is > the name of this process that's eating the CPU?
Oh... it's kernel_task (not kernel_task_manager). Since top displays only kernel_tas, I overexpanded it.... in any case, it is pid 0. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2413 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070820/e34bbdc6/attachment.bin
