Excessive script time relaunch

[ard jonker]

> On 25 Feb 2020, at 16:06, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this a problem with some process on the mini using up 100% of the CPU either XTension or other? I have had similar issues in the past and have done things to regularly monitor for a high CPU usage situation.

This happened the other day, after I have taken the measures you suggest. I must say, yours _idle really is a smart solution to catch the villain!

> In XTension if you create a pseudo unit named “_idle” and in ON script
> if value of (thisUnit) is greater than 9% and (future value) is less than 10% then
> do async shell script “echo ‘- - - - - - - -‘ >> ~/Documents/psout.txt ; date >> ~/Documents/psout.txt ; ps aux >> ~/Documents/psout.txt”
> end if
> 

Although this time the behaviour was erratic in a different way. It appeared to be a daemon that takes care of Photos' image recognition. That even runs if you have removed the Photos app from your computer :-(

ard