On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Fritz Anderson fritza@uchicago.edu wrote:
On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
I realise that this is a very sketchy bug report - I'm posting it here in the hopes that someone else has run into it and has managed to work out exactly what is causing it better than I have. I'm not even sure if the fault lies with skim or with textmate or with the latex bundle.
If you know the processor is saturated, I assume you're already running Activity Monitor. Sort the window by % CPU to see what process is taking up the bandwidth. That may tell you where the problem is. Select that line. Click the Sample Process button in the toolbar. If the resulting stack trace doesn't tell you anything, it will probably mean something to the author of the offending program.
You can also use the Quit Process button to kill the offender without having to log yourself out.
I should have been clearer - this is what is so strange about this bug. Once it is triggered, any new process starts eating up the CPU, no matter what it is, and killing it in the task manager doesn't reduce the CPU load. That's why I find this bug so odd...
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