What is "Process Name = (null)", and why is it hogging my CPU?
I woke my Dual-1.25 GHz G4 from sleep this morning and saw through X Resource Graph that CPU usage was through the roof. I was totally baffled, since I wasn't running anything massively CPU-intensive like Folding@home.
I opened up Activity Monitor and saw this:
PID: 367
Process Name: (null)
% CPU: 164.00
# Threads: 14
Real Memory: 15.91 MB
Virtual Memory: 1.13 GB (!)
So what exactly is this? And why is it taking up so much of my CPU and Virtual Memory? What does it do? I'm guessing it may be some obscure part of the OS running behind the scenes, but doesn't the fact that the name of this process is "null" mean that there's nothing actually running?
I opened up Activity Monitor and saw this:
PID: 367
Process Name: (null)
% CPU: 164.00
# Threads: 14
Real Memory: 15.91 MB
Virtual Memory: 1.13 GB (!)
So what exactly is this? And why is it taking up so much of my CPU and Virtual Memory? What does it do? I'm guessing it may be some obscure part of the OS running behind the scenes, but doesn't the fact that the name of this process is "null" mean that there's nothing actually running?
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And yes, I have "issues"
Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.
Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.
I've done a thread like this before to see if you could tell what a process was doing so you'd know if it was unecessary or malicious, but there isn't too much you can do. You can take a sample from activity monitor, but it's pretty useless.