On 1 Jan 2006, at 13:15, Andrei Tchijov wrote:
If you will run top, you will see that Eclipse 3.2 consumes tons of
CPU even when it is doing nothing hanging in background. This is the
reason for your problems with sound.
Thank you very much for this - it did reveal the problem (I think).
However, it wasn't eclipse that was the cause but a process called
"VShieldChe" that was taking up over 80% of my CPU!!
I checked the internet and it turns out this is an incompatibility
between Virex 7.5 and Mac OX X Tiger:
http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=318576&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
<http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=318576&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1>
Search for "VShieldChe" on the page.
I've uninstalled Virex using the instructions on the apple developer page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301291
So far everything is looking (and sounding) good. iTunes shows 6.2%
whilst playing Stevie Wonder, java shows as 1.6% and eclipse as 0.0% (as
its doing nothing). I'm using the newly released Milestone 4 so maybe
this has solved any previous issues with Eclipse. It looks like
Eclipse, iTunes and everything else were competing with Virex for access
to the CPU which together showed the problem.
The version of the top command that i used was "top -ocpu -O+rsize -s 5
-n 20" which is the first example in the man top pages. Really useful
utility.
Hopefully this will solve the problem.
Best Regards,
Ian Cheyne
On Jan 1, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Ian Cheyne wrote:
Yes, I am seeing this too! I'm using a Dual 2GHz G5. I've only just
upgraded to Eclipse 3.2 (Milestone 4) from 3.0 and noticed this for
the first time (I almost always have iTunes running in the
background). The only other change to my system was the latest J2SE
update via Software Update. However, I upgraded Eclipse after this
and it seems that it was Eclipse causing the problem. I'm running
Eclipse under 1.4.2_09.
Best Regards and a Happy New Year to everyone,
Ian Cheyne
