RetsolSA process eating up cpu%

That's not a known OSX process. Must be from some third party software, although I come up empty handed when I search for that. Are you spelling that correctly?

Whatever it is, it will only return with a reboot, but you can temporarily kill it using Quit Process from Activity Monitor

Get EasyFind and search for its locations. But don't delete anything yet.

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html

Then I've never heard of it or come across it. What does EasyFind show? I'm running 10.6.8 and it's nowhere on my system. And just because it's owned by root, doesn't mean it's a native process. Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions and see if you find anything by that name or related.

Description of Mac OS X processes.

http://triviaware.com/macprocess/all#R

Message was edited by: WZZZ

Check Launch Agents and Launch Daemons in /Library and /System/Library. Also check Accounts>Login Items in Sys Prefs. It might show up under some other name.

As I said, you can kill it, but it will only return with a restart.

In case this is some indispensable system process I don't know about, use the following at your own risk:

Open Terminal in Utilities and enter

sudo kill -9 <PID #>

( sudo kill -9 465 )

Important, leave a space after -9 then enter the current PID, which would be the PID from the current boot or after trying to kill it in AM. This will probably still be 465.

Hit return. You will then be prompted for your admin pword, which won't appear anywhere when you enter it and you will get a warning about using sudo. Then hit return again.

Have you looked thoroughly with EasyFind for any name that might be similar or related? Set EF settings to scan all files, ignore case, invisible. Try entering Retrol alone without SA. Besides All Words, try Phrase and Unix Wildcards also.

When you said this was a system process, is that because it comes up under the System Processes tab of AM?

How much CPU is it using. Is it so much you can't live with it?

http://kb.retrospect.com/articles/en_US/Retrospect_Article/RetroISA-Advanced-Opt ions/?l=en_US&fs=Search&pn=1

Great link. Interesting that a search for "RetrolSA" turned up nothing.

...why easy find could not find this file.... +... a search for "RetrolSA" turned up nothing.

it's an I for Instant, not an L