----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 2008, July 25 18:02
Processes: 61 total, 3 running, 58 sleeping... 342
threads 20:19:27
Load Avg: 0.45, 0.99, 1.21 CPU usage: 2.80% user, 3.74% sys,
93.46% idle
SharedLibs: num = 2, resident = 34M code, 0 data, 3104K
linkedit.
MemRegions: num = 8452, resident = 253M + 14M private, 81M shared.
PhysMem: 199M wired, 489M active, 3365M inactive, 4054M used, 42M
free.
VM: 3418M + 131M 53452(0) pageins, 6452(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD
RSIZE VSIZE
74354 top 5.9% 0:02.43 1 19 33 460K 212K
1064K 19M
*** > 74288 mdworker 0.0% 0:00.40 3 52 37 744K 2504K
2492K 31M
74059 sh 0.0% 0:00.03 1 14 18 224K 764K
976K 18M
74054 sshd 0.0% 0:00.36 1 17 49 356K 200K
1440K 21M
NOTE* > 73445 perl 0.0% 0:13.79 1 11 155 17M 29M
26M 50M
71709 perl 0.0% 0:48.19 1 11 155 18M 29M
27M 50M
*** > 314 mdworker 0.0% 0:32.72 4 55 36 1292K 2140K
2892K 31M
313 pmTool 0.0% 9:25.72 1 24 26 628K 1048K
1468K 27M
312 Activity M 0.5% 11:10.62 5 110 229 4340K 15M
11M 197M
309 usbmuxd 0.0% 0:00.01 2 21 32 208K 224K
728K 19M
306 iTunesHelp 0.0% 0:00.10 2 53 50 512K 588K
2280K 89M
188 Finder 0.0% 19:26.91 9 162 203 3728K 12M
16M 185M
187 coreaudiod 0.0% 0:00.08 2 96 29 260K 232K
928K 18M
186 ATSServer 0.0% 0:00.45 2 80 82 700K 1164K
2360K 62M
185 AppleVNCSe 0.9% 6:18:17 6 101 91 13M 8228K
17M 143M
184 SystemUISe 0.0% 0:02.40 6 211 186 2164K 4732K
6292K 158M
Here is a breakdown from the Activity Monitor showing the parent spamd
(perl) and two (perl) children called 'nobody.' The sh process is the
scanspam script from which I excerpted the two lines which call spamc
and then change the .tmp file to .sub once spamd is through processing
it. I'v thrown in freshclam and the CG PRO process also:
PID proc user CPU Thrds Real Mem Vir Mem Kind(Platform)
COMPARE* > 73445 perl nobody 0.0 1 25.79 MB 618.09 MB PowerPC
156 perl root 0.0 1 24.55 MB 608.68 MB PowerPC
71709 perl nobody 0.0 1 26.82 MB 618.35 MB PowerPC
75 freshclam root 0.0 1 456.00 KB 586.43 MB PowerPC
74059 sh root 0.0 1 976.00 KB 586.16 MB PowerPC
103 sh root 0.0 1 772.00 KB 586.16 MB PowerPC
102 CGServer root 4.8 141 13.45 MB 617.47 MB PowerPC
WTH is Activity Monitor claiming 618.09 MB for this perl function when
top reports a more sane 50M? Can ActivityMonitor be believed?
Note the mdworker threads. I Googled it. First answer was this thread:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=24789
Here is another discussion thread to consider:
"http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/361819/great-crusade-against-10-5-mdworker/";
In some circles mdworker is not considered to be a very friendly tool.
I'd nice it to the point it barely runs in the background if I didn't
kill it altogether or simply run a FreeBSD or Linux based solution. For
servers Apples and non-server versions of Windows are dreadful. The raw
'ix solutions do far better.
Take it up with Apple. You have activity on your machine so mdworker
dutifully tries to search out changes to the system it may have caused
thus eating your machine alive.
{^_^} Joanne
