Hi Kari, If you can bring up a terminal window (Command-Shift-U in Finder to go to the Utilities folder, press "t" to go to Terminal and Command-Down arrow to launch). You can kill the applespell.service process if you know its process ID number. For example, if the process ID number were "1210" listed in the table, you would type: kill -9 1210 in terminal, and then press return. It may take a little while to bring up a terminal window if your CPU is thrashing, but if you read off the ID number you can force the applespell.service to quit. The "kill -9" is the equivalent to a force quit, and is only used in emergencies. A regular "kill" should quite the process in most cases.
HTH. Cheers and good luck, Esther On Jun 28, 2011, at 17:45, johns.kary wrote: > Hi guys, > Well things seam to have gone from bad to worse! > My mac has been working fine all last night and most of to day, with > applespell.service consistently running at 0.0. So I thought my troubles were > over. No such luck! > > I wasn't paying very close attention, so I'm not 100 % sure when it started > running hot again, but i'd say it's probably just the last hour it's been > heating up again. I've had my mac running since 9 this morning so it's been > on probably 4 and a half hours ruffly. Not always in use either. > As soon as I noticed I went and checked and sure enough, my old friend > applespell.service was running at 85.4 > > This is wear I ran in to real trouble, quitting or force quitting the > process is now having no affect! I can't get it to run at anything below80. > > I've been monitoring it for a while now and I thought I'd post the details > hear on the off chance someone can see something in them I'm missing. > > Parent process, launched 127, process group applespell.service 524, % CPU: > 80.87, recent hangs: 0, threads:2, page ins: 0, ports: 44, mach messages in: > 20410, CPU time: 29:15:29, mach messages out: 43623, context switches: > 52211, mach system calls: 32307, Faults: text, UNIX system calls: 2831336. > > > The only programs I've had running most of the time is safari, Mail and text > edit. > > Thanks for any more thoughts, I guess my next move is to contact apple. *sigh* > Kari. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
