bmcapture using 90%+ of processor

itsbob5678 wrote:
Another person had this problem, but there weren't any answers: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10922260&tstart=0

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There was one answer, contact the company that markets the product Spark.

Running 10.5.8, not exactly sure what I installed that starts this process. Is there anyway to figure out what application starts a particular process?

First use the Accounts panel of System Preferences to see if it's one of the Login items. If it's not there, look in your home folder, Library/LaunchAgents for a mention of it. If you still haven't found anything, look in the Library folder at the top level of your boot volume in the folders LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons, and StartupItems. Last, launch Activity Monitor, set the list at the top to "All Processes", select that process, then click on the "Inspect" item in the toolbar, and choose the tab for "Open Files and Ports". One of the first items in the resulting list will be the program that's being run along with its path. That location may give you enough information to track it down.

If you want to track down what starts bmcapture you might give the excellent (and free) app 'fseventer' a try..... http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19141/fseventer.
It employs a real time graphical display of your Mac's file system changes.

I just ran into this issue and couldn't find any other posts about it. After a bit of digging, I found that this is the background process of a network traffic monitoring software called BitMeter OS. I installed it a while ago and completely forgot about it until it started eating CPU cycles for no reason.

To remove it, run this line:

/Library/Application\ Support/BitMeter/bmremove.sh

Thanks for your posting! For some reason this process started running like crazy tonight and I was happy to find your solution for the problem. It is definitively BitMeter, which I was trying out over a year ago. No idea what started it tonight.