Thanks, these steps worked. On Aug 3, 2:00 pm, "byron.shaheen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > High CPU usage is usually caused by a bloated sync database. I'd > suggest replacing it: > > * If you haven't done so lately, make a backup of your iCal calendars > (iCal File menu, choose "Export...", then choose "iCal Archive...") > * Quit out of all open programs > * Make sure that nothing is syncing (Spanning Sync, .Mac, iSync) > * Move this folder to the trash: > > ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices (~ refers to your home > directory) > > * Restart > * Open iCal and give it a few minutes to write out the new database > > Also, the MDS processes are related to Spotlight. Spotlight may be > trying to index some of Spanning Sync's data files, causing > unnecessary CPU usage after each sync. To prevent this, open the > Spotlight pref pane and drag this folder to the list in the Privacy > tab: > > ~/Library/Application Support/Spanning Sync > > Please let us know if that doesn't address the problem or you have > other questions. > > Thanks, > > Byron > > --- > Byron Shaheen > [email protected]http://spanningsync.com > > On Aug 3, 12:49 am, J <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > After the most recent update (3.1.1) my CPU utilization skyrocketed. > > Whenever iCal i open, CPU utilization shoots up on one core to 80% > > (iCalExtension) and other processes shoot up to 50% on the other core > > (mds and mdworker). > > > I have to do a bunch of killalls to get the system back under > > control. But what makes it difficult is that the processes > > continually spawn new processes. So mdworker creates a new process > > (and kills the old one) every 3-4 seconds. > > > Basically, iCal has become completely unusable. Please fix this > > issue. I am running SpanningSync 3.1.1 on SnowLeopard.
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