PrintJobMgr uses 98% CPU after 10.2.6 update!
Running a G4-upgraded B&W in Photoshop 7.0.1 will all updates. This problem first appeared immediately after updating from 10.2.5 to 10.2.6.
When printing from Photoshop to my Epson 1270, entire system slows to a crawl, including printer. A look at the Process viewer shows the following:
1. Photoshop using extremely high percentage (70%-90%) of CPU while spooling.
2. When printing starts, a process called PrintJobMgr shows same high CPU usage, or worse, up to 98%.
3. You can imagine what happens when I try to spool another job while the first one is printing!
4. While investigating this in the Process Viewer, using the "Find" field to narrow the list, a "mystery" process popped up for a while named "???". According to the Process Viewer, ??? was using 1488% CPU!
5. I have done basic troubleshooting such as Repair Permissions, fsck-y, Disk Warrior, swap out usb cables, switch usb ports, bypass usb hub, etc.
Since I have seen no other reports of this problem anywhere online, I am wondering if it is specific to my setup. I read MacFixit & many forums all the time, and posted this in several places with no response. Has anyone seen this issue? Any troubleshooting suggestions? Could it be a wierd USB issue with difficulty communicating with the printer?
When printing from Photoshop to my Epson 1270, entire system slows to a crawl, including printer. A look at the Process viewer shows the following:
1. Photoshop using extremely high percentage (70%-90%) of CPU while spooling.
2. When printing starts, a process called PrintJobMgr shows same high CPU usage, or worse, up to 98%.
3. You can imagine what happens when I try to spool another job while the first one is printing!
4. While investigating this in the Process Viewer, using the "Find" field to narrow the list, a "mystery" process popped up for a while named "???". According to the Process Viewer, ??? was using 1488% CPU!
5. I have done basic troubleshooting such as Repair Permissions, fsck-y, Disk Warrior, swap out usb cables, switch usb ports, bypass usb hub, etc.
Since I have seen no other reports of this problem anywhere online, I am wondering if it is specific to my setup. I read MacFixit & many forums all the time, and posted this in several places with no response. Has anyone seen this issue? Any troubleshooting suggestions? Could it be a wierd USB issue with difficulty communicating with the printer?
Comments
kill ####
####=the PID # you get from top
if that doesn't work.. try sudo kill...
if you can kill it and it still occurs... maybe a reinstall of the system?
keep an eye on top and keep tabs on weird processes you have going on in your machine...
Thanks for your suggestions. I don't understand "Top" yet, but I will investigate. The wierd ??? process didn't stay onscreen long enough to investigate, maybe 20 seconds. I just booted into a clone of my old 10.2.5 system on another drive to see if the update was the problem, and the problem was there, too! Now I am really puzzled.
yeah seems like something got weird...
top is just a simple terminal command to let you see the currently running processes... basically it is the same thing as the process viewer... all you have to do is type
top
into the terminal and you will see what I mean...
now type
q
to get out of top and you can quit the terminal... (or kill a certain process that is eating your CPU thats what I mainly use top for so that is why I suggested it...)
if you don't see anything weird running in the background...
how hard would it be for you to do a reinstall?
when you installed jag did you do a clean install or an upgrade?
Originally posted by garyp
It isn't a hardware problem. I booted into OS 9.2.2 and printed like wildfire while spooling a second print. This is OS X printing bugginess. Panther had better pull it together a lot more for printing.
I have an odd Question. Is the printer USB2?
Originally posted by oldmacfan
I have an odd Question. Is the printer USB2?
The Printer is USB1, an Epson 1270 from the year 2000.