Why is this happening?!

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os, for some reason, iChat is ewating my 1.6 G5 for lunch and the Finder is doing the same number on my Dual 2 Ghz G5...does anyone know WTF? Force quit will bring it back to no usage, but they both soon ramp up again. Im going insane about this. Am I the ONLY one with this issue?

EDIT: Reinstall on the Dual 2 has fixed this...but I have had the issue before and for no reason...and I am tired of reinstalling Panther (BTW, only have this issue with 10.3...on EVERY G5 I own. It will work fine for a while, then start with this CPU hogging crap.) I have even called Apple only to have them tell me I am full of it...

RE-EDIT: Now it's just iChat that does it...WHY WHY WHY (pulls out hair in frustration)

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Thank you so much. I feel better just knowing that it is a KNOWN bug. I'm hoping its an issue that will be resolved in a future (10.4?) version of the Finder. Can anyone possibly confirm this?

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Well, you would have thought it would have been fixed in a .x.x update. It's been around since the release of Panther. The CPU usage and the crashing with jpeg's on the desktop are the two bugs that just never go away.

The problem is they are sporadic. It's hard to test them, because one minute it exists, the next it doesn't. For instance, I always struggle with the CPU usage bug about a month or so after a fresh OS install, and then after a couple of restarts it disappears never to be seen again.

My guess is that it won't be fixed in 10.4 because I haven't read about any drastic changes with the Finder. For now, I would recommend just restarting your machine a couple times until it goes away and then just hope for the best that it doesn't come back. You can also submit a bug report to Apple, but like I said before, many people have already and nothing's changed.

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I have issues with CPU usage on Safari. Often i'll be using Safari, and suddenly I'm using a major chunk of CPU time and my PowerMac sounds like it's going to take off. It's damn annoying, all I am doing is browsing the web. I hope Tiger fixes these issues too. :rolleyes:

As for issues, I reinstalled a few days ago, after for no known reason, i had intense HDD activity which was bringing the speed of my PowerMac to a stuttering pace... No idea why, but it left on a reinstall. Good job the reinstall takes 10 mins, and restoring a user setup really is quite easy! Gotta love the Drag and Drop of pretty much everything! :)

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This is annoying for sure...

One other thing too, if I send a large file via iChat, it will use 100% or more CPU, and even when it is done it wont release it and I have to quit/restart it. I know it's a minor thing (force quitting ichat/Finder), but it's damn annoying cause it forces me to check the Activity Monitor before I can play Doom 3...really dumb.

No one with Tiger can tell me if they have this issue or not? That is all I ask. If I am breaking a rule by asking that, please let me know...

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Well, you would have thought it would have been fixed in a .x.x update. It's been around since the release of Panther. The CPU usage and the crashing with jpeg's on the desktop are the two bugs that just never go away.

The problem is they are sporadic. It's hard to test them, because one minute it exists, the next it doesn't. For instance, I always struggle with the CPU usage bug about a month or so after a fresh OS install, and then after a couple of restarts it disappears never to be seen again.

My guess is that it won't be fixed in 10.4 because I haven't read about any drastic changes with the Finder. For now, I would recommend just restarting your machine a couple times until it goes away and then just hope for the best that it doesn't come back. You can also submit a bug report to Apple, but like I said before, many people have already and nothing's changed.

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This is EXACTLY my experience with it...I have reported it to them as well at apple.com/macosx/feedback about ten times now, just to get their attention (hopefully...) Still waiting to hear back from Shawna (Mac Genius in KS Apple Store) and will post her thoughts when I do.

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ah i love these threads, actually problems with Mac OSX. its amazing!!! sorry to take pleasure out of your pain but it is nice to know that their are some problems with Mac OSX and that it isnt perfect. although it would annoy me if there is a problem that never gets fixed keep happening but i guess you will have to live with it if restarting doesnt help

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Back when I had my G5, the finder would always go crazy and suck away at the cpu. It doesn't happen with my G4 but iChat tends to shoot up to 80-90% at random moments and I don't know why. I have to quit and relaunch it. It's stupid!

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Well, the Finder issue seems to (finally) have gone away.

@mad_onion: Well, I suppose I can live with one or two bugs in my OS compared to the long list of patches for WinXP (and this is just post-SP2, mind you...). I'm sure it would annoy you if there were problems that never got fixed kept happening with WIndows...wait...who are you kidding, maybe just yourself?

@AveDeoInferio: I see this on my wife's G4 iBook sometimes as well, and on my G5 if I send a large file to someone (hundreds of MB, think the file I sent you yesterday :ninja: ) A force quit will always fix that though...with the Finder thing sometimes it doesn't and a restart is in order.

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