01-13-2010, 10:06 AM

In OS X 10.6.2, clicking to see Dashboard results in DashboardClient using 90+% of CPU, shown in Activity Monitor. iMac w/ 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

From Activity Monitor - Open Files and Processes
/
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/Dashboard
Client.app/Contents/MacOS/DashboardClient
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DashboardClient.framework/Versio
ns/A/DashboardClient
/private/var/db/mds/messages/se_SecurityMessages
/Users/pte/Library/Widgets/iCal
Events.wdgt/iCalEventsPlugin.widgetplugin/Contents/MacOS/iCalEvent
sPlugin
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc
/usr/share/icu/icudt40l.dat
/System/Library/Keyboard
Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboa
rdLayouts-L.dat
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.kbdx
/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont
/private/var/folders/UX/UXByk00jF+avn9PqkEFu6k+++TI/-Caches-/com.a
pple.LaunchServices-025501.csstore
/usr/lib/dyld
/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_i386
/dev/null
->0x04e195e0
->0x04e195e0
/private/etc/security/audit_control
count=1, state=0x2
/Users/pte/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db
->0x0522ac70
->0x05229dd0
/Users/pte/Library/Application
Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
->0x0522ab50
/private/etc/security/audit_class

Why is this happening?

01-13-2010, 10:38 AM

Stop the individual items you have running in Dashboard until you figure out which one of them is causing it. Then don't use that one.