SystemUIserver using 90+% of CPU

Vista was not THAT bad, it was just too different from the XP, and was trying to introduce too many new things and address too many issues at once. Vista was an enormous step for Microsoft.

Snow Leopard, on the other hand, was supposed to be a more polished version of Leopard. What it turned out to be is a mostly broken version of Leopard.

My personal opinion is that so far the only decent version of Mac OS X was the Tiger - they've fixed most issues there, which then reappeared in Leopard, and successfully made it into Snow Leopard. I personally have a few bugs reported that are nearly 3 years old now, with no fix in sight. I already have Windows 7 installed on my MBP, so it's just a matter of time before I'm forced to switch away from OSX, seeing as to where Apple is heading... It indeed used to be "It just works" with Apple awhile ago. Now it's mostly "It just doesn't".

You've probably never used a laptop before, have you? When CPU is used 100% - it's not the fan that's problem, it's the power usage that's the problem: suddenly your laptop shuts down, because there's no more juice left in its batteries.

This is incredibly sloppy programming. Unacceptable that a time change should overheat our computers, possibly causing damage to the hardware. Apple needs to fix this ASAP. It's now 1 hour past the changeover and my cpu is still going nuts.

And now that it's 2am, the CPU usage is back to normal.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/ "Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The world's most advanced operating system. Finely tuned."

*flips out at 2 AM, catches on fire*

no it's 2am on east coast, i reenabled show time and date and i don't have the problem anymore.

Yeah, CPU just dropped back here. Still needs to be fixed ASAP or this will become another huge issue in the spring.

ditto

This really isn't a huge deal, I mean yeah it's a bug but who would have known.


I still love OS X but....


Worst Bug Ever?


Yes.

Yeah, wow, huge response.

I can confirm that the problem went away exactly an hour after it started.
2am here, back to normal.

Just reinstated clock after 2 AM and problem gone.

This was weird. As soon as it hit 2AM here, the process immediately stopped using so much CPU.

I wonder how much we all contributed to global warming with that spike. Is Al Gore still on the Apple board?

Same deal here, hiding the clock fixed the 100% cpu use issue, it started when the time changed.

Well, all went back to normal after raging for about half an hour. This problem seems so mysterious. I stumbled on this thread when I was googling the SystemUIServer. Google is FAST.