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I am not really sure what's causing this but every time I start my MacBook Pro I get at least 2 processes with this name that keep my processor at at 100% and more. It only happens on my MacBook Pro and I noticed this after I updated to Mountain Lion the other day. There is no trace of these on my iMac though also updated to Mountain Lion.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, 2.2 GHz, Core i7 15"
Hi! I had the same problem, check this:
It seems that QuicktimeX is trying to prepare the preview of some incomplete or corrupt video files. When I browse with Finder a folder containing incomplete avi files, my cpu is at 120% (btw, with Perian installed, my cpu is only at 40-50% when is trying to handle those avi previews, but is still high)
In my case, the solution is: do not leave open folders containing incomplete avi.
But there's something I don't understand, why this never happened before to me? Only with Mountain Lion.
English is not my native language but I hope this helps you.
FWIW my 2011 Macbook Air was experiencing the same issue, with the quicklooksatellite-legacy consuming all of the CPU and running my fan nonstop. I too had recently installed Draftsight. Killing the quicklooksatellite-legacy process and running qlmanage -r has repeatedly fixed the problem, although the CPU/fan issue would mysteriously return, requiring tme to run the aforementioned fix again. I finally just uninstalled Draftsight to see if it fixes the issue once and for all.
Hope this helps somebody, because the fan noise is simply maddening.
WJG
Thanks for solving this. It was the same issue here and I solved it by just zipping the FxQuickLookDrawing.qlgenerator file and deleting the original.
A little bit more information:
Draftsight and Corel Draw are both based on the ARES CAD System.
That's why all three programs are giving the same issue, I guess.
KR,CK
I've been having similar problems with QuickLook Helper for what seems like years. I've narrowed it down to when I plug in my iPHone 5 and iPhoto starts up to import photos, QuickLoook Helper fires up and takes up tons of resources which makes the iPhoto import process really slow. I then force quit QLHelper, but it immediately reopens which again slows imports.
I've also noticed that QLHelper starts up when I use DownloadHelper on Firefox to download internet videos (from YouTube, etc). It happens every time I use that app. So what's the adivce on this particular situation? I'd like to get rid of QuickLook Helper altogether as I NEVER use it and NEVER have.
In fact, the only reason that I know I have it is because of all of the memory it hogs up at what seemed like random times.
Any input would be appreciated.
Chad Williams
Someone needs to mark this as being the post that solved the issue.
Keith,
I think the original issue has been blurred by respondents commenting on QuicklookSatellite_Legacy issues (as I did) which is slightly different than the original post. The original post has been marked as solved but the thread now seems to be focused on the QuicklookSatellite_Legacy issue which seems to be common to a lot of CAD 3D applications for the Mac. They include Draftsight, CorelCAD, iCadMac, ARES Commander and there may be others.
One comment makes the statement that Draftsight and CorelCAD are based on ARES Commander and I already know that iCadMac is based on ARES Commander.
Users with the QuicklookSatellite_Legacy issues might be interested in the following given that ARES Commander seems to be the common denominator.
I purchased a licence for ARES Commander and in the last week I was notified of an update which re-installed the glgenerator I had previously disabled. I noticed immediately that the CPU was being hogged by the QuicklookSatellite_Legacy process I could see in Monitor. There were two processes running at 375% and 300% each. The CPU fans were running flat out with the CPU temperature at 90 degrees Celsius and the CPU Diode at 85 degrees Celsius.
I logged a job with Graebert (the developers in Germany) including the notes that the process kicked off when I accessed subfolders on my Macbook that were unrelated to CAD drawings. In other words the process kicked off whenever I moved around in Finder. The job was marked as Critical and yesterday I received advice that a Service Pack will be issued later this month to address the issue.
It could be that this may ripple through to iCadMac, CorelCAD, Draftsight and any other application based on ARES Commander.
Cheers
Chris
Just to bump this (found this thread through Google) - had the exact same issue, and did the exact same fix, but I'm not sure which of two CAD programs was the cause: I had DraftSight installed, as well as Rhinoceros. Additionally piece of info is that I haven't done any work in DraftSight and so don't have any files, but I did do some drafting in Rhinoceros, and it's the first thing in "all my files" when I open a new finder window.
Rather than trashing the plugins, I just compressed them and deleted the uncompressed versions, and that solved the CPU issue.
It appears the latest ML update changed the program that searches for movie files from qtkitserver to qtkittrustedmoviesservice. So the same problem with multiple processes endlessly sucking up CPU and getting stuck on some avi or flv files started again.
My workaround was to edit this new file:
sudo vi com.apple.qtkittrustedmoviesservice.sb
and the same old file:
sudo vi com.apple.qtkitserver.sb
though not sure if the latter edit is necessary. Or use nano or some other editor if not familiar with vi commands.
Then add the following two lines to the end of each file:
(deny file-read* (regex #"^.*\.flv$"))
(deny file-read* (regex #"^.*\.avi$"))
How annoying this problem keeps perpetuating itself across multiple generations of OS X. How would an ordinary user ever be expected to fix a problem like this?
Really I can’t with this phone
QTKitServer-(326) QuickLook Satellite-general
