Why is ATH.exe using 50% of my CPU?

I have an Apple TV so stopping iTunes from running when I'm not using it makes no sense to me.

I'm VERY DISSAPOINTED in Apple, as they have not fixed this in many updates to iTunes. Almost like they don't monitor this forum on their own website.

WIRELESS SYNC = USELESS - so Apple please stop listing it as a feature for users.

I'm having the same issue running Windows 7, 64-bit edition. After all these iTunes releases you would think they found a fix for this by now!!!

There is a lot of this thread so I haven't read the whole thing so my apologies...has anyone written a script to terminate ATH or AMDS when they kick on or when they use a certain % of processor? I've been killing ATH constantly and it is slightly irritating.

On Windows that would be quite interesting. I have written some process monitors in .Net before so I might give that a try. It would need to be run as an administrator though, otherwise it wouldn't be able to automatically kill the task... not 100% sure yet how I would detect if the process had gone rogue, but I might dig out Visual Studio and see if I can find a way to do that...

I've done it before but in some overzealous HDD cleanup, deleted the VBS. This sitehas a start. Needs some work. Though in my VBS test, WMI was eating up 10% processor overhead...I'm sure there is a hack to this problem that has much less overhead. Like, oh, I dunno, Apple fixing the problem.

I did it the simplistic way by creating a bat file that stopped and then started the ath.exe file, created an exe from that, made a shortcut to itso windows 7 could run it as admin, added it to task scheduler and set it to run every hour. I was too lazy to figure out a method to detect whether it had gone rogue and figured it was just simpler to keep on stopping and restarting it.

Just bumping this to the top again. Same issue with ath.exe using 30-50% of my CPU on Windows 8 x64. Come on Apple, don't leave your Windows users out to dry.

The bug I filed to Apple on this issue, with details and debug logs, was closed as "Not reproducible."

Pathetic, apple!

Well, that's not cool. I've turned off the wi-fi sync and that has resolved the issue for me. Can you post the defect number? I'll go add to it or submit another one and post the number to this thread.

Thanks!

David

cdf5736 wrote:

Well, that's not cool. I've turned off the wi-fi sync and that has resolved the issue for me. Can you post the defect number? I'll go add to it or submit another one and post the number to this thread.

Thanks!

David

Agreed 😟 The bug number I filed was 12898549

Can't you reopen it?

They can't reproduce it? Seriously? They can't have tried real hard. Thinking maybe it was something on my desktop pc that had a conflict and caused this issue, I decided just the other day to try it on 2 different computers. One with a clean install of windows 7-64 and one with old xp running on it. Both computers ended up having ath.exe consume over 50% of my CPU if iTunes was left running with wifi sync enabled.

Try again Apple. It's really not that hard to make it happen.

I can't get past the "enter your serial number" thinger via the support wizard. I have no idea what the problem with their support site is. When I enter the ticket number, it tells me it's not a valid ticket. Can anyone else get past this? This has surpassed my PITA factor to deal with any longer.

This was filed in their bug reporting portal

https://bugreport.apple.com/

I can't do anything at the moment, I now get "An error has occurred. Please report the error to Apple Inc. by emailing the error detail to devbugs@apple.com. " when I try to sign into the portal. 😢

Sent an e-mail to devbugs@apple.com

BTW, what means

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on top of this page? Is someone taking care, finally?