Ouch, why so much CPU for iTunes widget?
I was looking through Activity Monitor, the Mac OSX performance monitoring tool. I noticed widgets taking up to 8% CPU, and that only one was actually doing so – the iTunes Widget?!
Yes, the innocent looking default widget was using 7-8% CPU on my 1.42GHz mac mini, without the dashboard even being visible.
A hunch tells me it is siphoning off audio data all the time for some graphic equalizer display or something.
Duh! Bye bye iTunes widget.
2 Comments
Shaun
January 24, 2006Dunno if you have seen it but there is an application available named tinkertool which lets you control the Mac UI and other features, one of which being the disabling of the dashboard, just thought I would share it with you. ps: wrong post I know but did you ever sort out your windows trojan problem? I’m having the same one at the moment and have only just realised it (I’ve not touched the xp machine for over a fortnight due to just purchasing a mac)
Marc Palmer
February 16, 2006Windows problem: get process explorer and the other tool they do for showing sockets used by processes. This helps track down the trojan process. Then throw away the PC