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Originally Posted by look 171 View Post
Yeah, that lil' f'ker. Tried different Browser and still does it. Its on for 3-4 min then as soon as It goes away, I click on something, then the damn thing comes on again and repeats itself again.
Go up to the right hand corner and click the magnifying glass.

Type in Activity Monitor.

Launch it.

Across the top you can choose different parameters to look at.

Start with CPU. When the list populates click %CPU to sort by descending order. (If you get 0's click again)

See which processes are hogging the CPU. For instance if you were running Chrome and had a run away process you would see Google Chrome Helper at the top.

Any process you see running consistently above 30-50% is problematic. Spiking for a second is not an issue, it's being pegged at a high value that indicates a problem.
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