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Processor taking off while no background processess are running. What The ?
I’ve posted about this before, but didn’t get much of a reply.
Editing on my 17″ i7 MBP with 8gb memory, dual 2.66 with HDV media on a pretty fast OWC FW800 drive.
I’m getting no indication of any background processes running… no rendering, no analysis, no thumbnails being drawn, yet my activity monitor shows that FCPX is using nearly 400% of my cpu (even though I only have a dual core). Sitting and doing nothing doesn’t seem to do anything to slow the processor down.
I have no clue what it’s doing. Sometimes I shut down FCPX, let the processor stop and reopen to get it to settle down.
Anyone else have this issue?
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Mark,
I can offer no salve to your irritation, I am afraid, but I can offer a similar experience with an i7 (late 2011) MBP.
I’ve perversely thought of letting it run one day and see if a ‘China Syndrome” occurs!
All I can be thankful for is that it is not on my legs while it’s generating all of that heat!One thing that might be a culprit and I don’t know if you have the same, but the switching between the onboard and dedicated graphics card might have something to do with it?
Off to fire up the MBP and cook some steaks,
Lawrence
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I have had similar issues on my late 2010 17″ MBP.
When it was happening, I noticed that in activity monitor the Dock was running at 100%. Quitting all the programmes and rebooting seemed to cure it. From reading the web I’m not the only one.
I think its a 10.7.3 issue…
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor
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