It seems you have no shortage of good advice here but:
If I were you I'd look closer at each CPU hog and see what it's doing or
if there are settings you could change to stop this behavior. For
example, there are certainly setting in Camino you could alter, but I'd
start by closing one tab at a time while watching the CPU cycles on
Activity Monitor. There's a weather web page that I use
http://www.wunderground.com/satellite/vis/1k/US/PA/Aspers.html?theprefset=OLDSAT&theprefvalue=0
that will make any browser jump to around 30% usage. But it only does it
while it's the clicked tab. Alternatively of course, you could just open
one tab at a time and watch for the abuser.
Paula Minor wrote:
Well, initially it wouldn't start up in safe mode. It hung at the
white screen with the apple logo and the spinning dial. So I shut it
down after about 5 mins and started again. It took almost 5 min. but
did finally start up.
I have Camino open with all the tabs I usually have open(10 tabs) ,
mail, Windows media player because I wanted to listen to Mike Malloy
show but.......sadly, I have no sounds. I unplugged my external
speakers thinking that I could use the built in speaker but no go. so
I"m not going to run in safe mode for long. Too quiet around here.
Also have Photoshop CS2 with 2 photos open and iTunes. iTunes won't
play either since I have no sound.It doesn't even try to play a song.
And all of my widgets are running as usual. The cpu seems to vary
between about 44% to around 58% most of the time with spikes up to
100%. I'm not sure how long I need to run on this to see if Camino
is going to slow it down but will leave it running overnight with all
this stuff open. I really miss having my special buttons on my
Logitech rollerball! When you get used to using your thumb to change
things with a click or do a screen shot with a click, the basic two
buttons feel crippled.
One thing that happened when trying to boot into safe mode the first
time...when it got hung up a loud whirring sound started that sounded
like a very loud fan blowing. I have heard this before when OSX
decided to quit. Not every time but enough times that I'm aware of
it. I have no idea if it's anything unusual or not.
And to make things a bit worse.........one of my dogs ran by very fast
and bumped into the small table that my Macbook Pro is sitting on and
knocked it off. It fell flat on it's top with a very loud bang. I
have not had the courage to start it up....I might have to kill the
dog. JUST KIDDING! I have 7 dogs and am obviously an animal lover.
Thanks Tom for your suggestions and encouragement. Wish you were able
to make housecalls in Indy.
Paula
IN/USA
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a
ride!" Have a wonderful day!
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