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Q: 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

by Br0wNb0y,Solvedanswer
Br0wNb0y Br0wNb0y
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Yup I'm having the same problems. I disabled the time and date from showing up on the menubar and problem solved.

Has to be a time bug.

Today ***** because it took me an entire day to upgrade to Snow Leopard because of the "Dirty disc" issue that so many people were having and now I'm greeted with this minor bug

Posted on Oct 31, 2009 11:33 PM

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  • by David Grisez,

    David Grisez David Grisez Nov 1, 2009 1:52 PM in response to B Summers
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    Nov 1, 2009 1:52 PM in response to B Summers
    I also ran into SystemUIserver running with 99% cpu usage right around the changeover from daylight savings time to standard time in the Pacific Time zone of California. I turned my computer off. In the morning around 9:00am I turned my computer back on and SystemUIserver cpu usage was back to 0%. So this seems to be problem occuring around the time change back to Standard Time. And I am using Mac OS X snow leopard (10.6.1) on a Mac Pro 1st Generation.

  • by nemodomi,

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