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B Summers Author

Level 1

10 points

SystemUIserver using 90+% of CPU

I was browsing the web, minding my own business... when I noticed the fans were running high.
Thinking it was Flash, I closed Firefox. But the fans were still running at max.

Popped open Activity Monitor - and SystemUIServer was running 80-95% of my CPU, and Dock was using a fair bit too.

Reboot did nothing. Ran a set of clean-up tools through Cocktail, as well as repairing of permissions. Nothing still.

Can't explain what's going on. I haven't changed anything, not doing anything... and SystemUIServer is hogging the CPU.

MacBook Pro 15" (2,2), Mac OS X (10.6.1), 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD ~~ iPhone 3G 16GB ~~ 5th-gen iPod 30GB

Posted on Oct 31, 2009 8:31 PM

106 replies

nemodomi

Level 1

10 points

Nov 1, 2009 9:04 PM in response to David Grisez

As of late Sunday:

This problem goes beyond Apple's Date & Time, which I'm not using. Enabling iStat Menus' Date & Time initiates the problem. Unchecking "Show Date & Time" in iStat Menus does not stop the problem until I restart. Clues?

SystemUIserver using 90+% of CPU

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