http://www.dslreports.com/forum/OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21543003 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:38:06 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:38:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21551292 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21551292 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:16:11 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21551074 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21551074 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:12:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21551033 said by Wrath:

Should I try a reboot?
The answer is always "Yes"!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21551033 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:58:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550813 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550813 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:56:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550760 I have no idea what either of those are, so I guess I don't use them.

Should I try a reboot?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550760 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:41:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550236 Do you use either Parallels or Fusion?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550236 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:47:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550183 --
Ubuntu MOTU Developer and Forums Council]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550183 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:37:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550093 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550093 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550044
This is an entirely reasonable and proper design for launching applications on insertion of a device. The alternative is to hard-code this action in the hotplug framework and I'm sure you don't want iTunes that deep in the driver stack :)
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Ubuntu MOTU Developer and Forums Council]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21550044 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:13:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21549897 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21549897 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:43:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544562 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544562 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:22:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544541
itunes is typically #1 assuming I'm not browsing the web at 14%
SystemUIServer sometimes jumps to the #2 position
WindowServer sometimes jumps up there too.
kernel_task here and there
Sometimes firefox (like right now with me alt-tabbing to write this). Also Activity monitor.

Time-wise, kernel_task and WindowServer are top 2. Then hidd, iTunes, SystemUIServer, update...

Login Items: iTunesHelper, iStat Menus Helper.

Also, this shouldn't make much difference, but macbook hasn't been rebooted in 14 days. Actual running time 2d 18h

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544541 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:19:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544414 Applications->Utilities->Activity Monitor
On the pull down menu, show all processes and click on the CPU column to sort.
What process is showing thee highest?
Also, what Login Items are starting up? Systems Preferences->Accounts->Your Account-> Login Items.
And are all of your software updates current?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544414 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:54:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544368 --
Ubuntu MOTU Developer and Forums Council]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544368 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:46:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544353 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544353 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:42:07 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544160 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544160 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:06:13 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544146 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544146 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:04:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544066 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544066 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:51:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544058 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544058 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:49:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544027 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21544027 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:44:22 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21543962 said. What are you playing?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21543962 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:34:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21543034
Here's one alternative to iTunes: »getsongbird.com/
The resource usage isn't any better than iTunes though. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21543034 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:09:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21543003
Is it normal for itunes to be constantly using 14-16% of cpu time? Seems like its absurdly inefficient at playing an mp3 in the background..

Also, are there any alternatives to itunes?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/OS-X-Whats-the-deal-with-itunes-21543003 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:02:29 EDT