Lt Major Burns
"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
Right i seem to be the only one where tiger is a hell of a lot slower than panther.
it is now constantly writing about 1.8mb-5.8mb to the disk every second (according to activity monitor) and the cpu fans spin up every 10 seconds or so to full speed (bloody noisy).
in activity monitor ATSServer is the CPU hog, taking up to 73% cpu quite often - it is this that's making the fans spin up. i have no idea whats causing the disk to write that much data constantly. is spotlight still indexing? because it's giving no indication that it is. i've now got activity monitor running constantly to monitor this.
i've tried force quitting ATSServer, but it just reopens and carries on doing it's intensive work (what the hell is it, and will it ever stop?)
I've rebooted, run disk permissions repair, both in disk utility and off the boot cd.... i don't know what else to do
(edit) also running unknown in the activity monitor is "mdimport" i don't know what this is, but it's also the only using system resources
it is now constantly writing about 1.8mb-5.8mb to the disk every second (according to activity monitor) and the cpu fans spin up every 10 seconds or so to full speed (bloody noisy).
in activity monitor ATSServer is the CPU hog, taking up to 73% cpu quite often - it is this that's making the fans spin up. i have no idea whats causing the disk to write that much data constantly. is spotlight still indexing? because it's giving no indication that it is. i've now got activity monitor running constantly to monitor this.
i've tried force quitting ATSServer, but it just reopens and carries on doing it's intensive work (what the hell is it, and will it ever stop?)
I've rebooted, run disk permissions repair, both in disk utility and off the boot cd.... i don't know what else to do
(edit) also running unknown in the activity monitor is "mdimport" i don't know what this is, but it's also the only using system resources