Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@...> writes: > > My default Finder window has 203 items, ordered by label. When I display it in icon view, Activity viewer > says that Finder uses 100% of the CPU (on a 2 cores CPU). When I shift to list view, Finder reverts to normal > CPU usage like 0.1%. > > I've tested that with other windows that have a lot of items and I confirmed that behavior. Could anybody on > the list check if that is seen also in other settings ? I use a 2 years old 27" iMacs with 10.7.3 installed.
Alu 21" iMac 10.6.8 (32-bit), same thing. No fix yet :-/ They can be empty folders without special icons, if there are enough and it's in icon view, CPU spikes. Some things I noticed.. sometimes the CPU will drop to normal levels if you change the window size so not all icons are visible, or if you increase icon size to reach the same effect. Sometimes after playing around they will /stay/ low even after making the window larger than needed, with icons at smallest size. But if you then zoom the window to make it "just large enough" -> spike. Similarly, if it stays low even after changing window & icon sizes and settling on large window/small icons, it'll spike as soon as you switch to another application. I have no idea why these things are so, but maybe they'll help someone more knowledgable figure out in which direction the problem lies.. I can't duplicate this behaviour on a new empty account on the same computer, but on a regular-use account on another iMac it also happens, so I guess it's something in my setup. 3rd party prefpanels that I have on both computers: Flash Player, GeekTool, Growl, LiteSwitchX, MacFUSE, MenuMeters, Perian & Secrets. One day I'll try disabling subsets of those and see if one [combination] causes it.. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
