I noticed last night that my CPU seems way too active. I found the process "natd" in the activity viewer, and it's running at a fairly consistent 80% of CPU usage. What the heck is it? I searched for it and it's parent process "launchd", but everything it came back with was a bunch of networking stuff that's over my head...
THere's nothing out of the ordinary in startup items:
iTuneshelper
Activity Monitor
Palm Desktop Background
iCalAlarmScheduler
Mail
iTunes
Transport Monitor (for palm sync)
Coconut (network activity monitor for the dock, I've been using this for some time, so I wouldn't think this is causing it)
& iChat
I'll quit the process and see what happen right now...
Network Address translation should not take 80% of your cpu cycles. I've got an old P166 with 6 computers behind it, I cant ramp it up past 15%. Also your Unix system calls should not be a negative number. How long has your machine been running?
OK, so I quit the process, everything seemed fine & the CPU usage dropped to normal, so I went to post that here and realized I had no connectivity. Network activity viewer was totally blank. Had to restart. Looking in Activity viewer again, Natd is there, but it's idle. I wonder what made it go all nuts...