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Intercheck maxes out my CPUs

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Intercheck is using 98% of my %CPU for long periods of time. If I kill it, it comes back and climbs to 90%. Is there a way to fix this?

TIA, 

Bill

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    Lemon, the issue you are describing with backups on Lion is not the same issue I am responding to in this thread, even if both result in one of the CPU cores reaching 100%.  The reason you can see more than 100% CPU usage is that the system has more than one CPU core; for a dual-core system, your max usage is 200% (100% on each core).  For a quad-core system, the max usage is 400%.

    This is definitely something you don't want to see happening on a laptop running on battery power (for obvious reasons), but Apple computers should be designed to easily handle CPUs running at 100% (or even 200%).  There should be no reason to fear for the health of your computer, although it will warm up and pump out more exhaust heat.  For the issue described in this thread, one of the cores will hit 100% for a few minutes before going back to normal levels.

    This is not destructive, although it will draw significantly more power while the CPU core is running at full capacity.

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    Lemon, the issue you are describing with backups on Lion is not the same issue I am responding to in this thread, even if both result in one of the CPU cores reaching 100%.  The reason you can see more than 100% CPU usage is that the system has more than one CPU core; for a dual-core system, your max usage is 200% (100% on each core).  For a quad-core system, the max usage is 400%.

    This is definitely something you don't want to see happening on a laptop running on battery power (for obvious reasons), but Apple computers should be designed to easily handle CPUs running at 100% (or even 200%).  There should be no reason to fear for the health of your computer, although it will warm up and pump out more exhaust heat.  For the issue described in this thread, one of the cores will hit 100% for a few minutes before going back to normal levels.

    This is not destructive, although it will draw significantly more power while the CPU core is running at full capacity.

    :1003557
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