TimeMachineGrowler 1.0.1

[Peter Hosey]

Now works on Snow Leopard.

http://boredzo.org/time-machine-growler

If TMG takes a lot of CPU time on your Snow Leopard machine, you
probably have a lot of messages in your log. There's nothing I can do
about that. Make sure you upgrade to Growl 1.2b2 or later, which fixes
a major source of excessive logging. Also see about upgrading VMWare
Fusion, which is/was another log-happy program. Then you'll have to
wait at least a day for those messages to fall out of the log (or, if
your terminal-fu is strong, use aslmanager to delete all the old log
messages at once).

[Gary L. Gray]

This is exciting, but the page still just shows 1.0. :-(

-- Gary

[Gary L. Gray]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

Aha! It's there now. Downloading and installing. I will report any
issues I find.

Thank you!

-- Gary

[Gary L. Gray]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

I do have a large number of messages in my log and TMG is using a lot
of CPU. Is this just a one-time occurrence or will it always do that
if my log is well populated?

-- Gary

[Peter Hosey]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 07:44:39, Gary L. Gray wrote:
> Is this just a one-time occurrence or will it always do that if my
> log is well populated?

The latter. If your log contains a lot of messages, it takes the
asl_search function a long time to look at all of them. There's
nothing anyone outside Apple can do about that except have fewer
messages.

[Joelw135]

OK I unzipped and moved the file to applications. What else do I have
to do to get it working?

[Joelw135]

OK I unzipped and moved the file to applications. What else do I have
to do to get it working?

On Sep 5, 10:27 am, Peter Hosey <bore...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Gary L. Gray]

Run it and likely add it to your login items.

-- Gary

[Peter Hosey]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 07:53:48, Joelw135 wrote:
> OK I unzipped and moved the file to applications. What else do I
> have to do to get it working?

Open the application. It's a faceless background app, so you won't see
a TimeMachineGrowler menu or anything.

When you log out, shut down, or restart, TimeMachineGrowler will quit
(as will any other apps you have running at the time). If you want it
to start back up again, add it to your Login Items in the Accounts
pane of System Preferences.

[Joelw135]

Thanks it works great, no problem so far with logs. It took a minute
or two.

[Gary L. Gray]

Rats! Then I guess I am SOL -- I can't stand the sound of the fans
constantly running at >5000 rpm. :-(

Thank you anyway.

-- Gary

[Joelw135]

When I looked at the CPU usage I only see on the left PID=5225 what
does that mean?

[Joelw135]

I just checked my fans on my iMac and the CPU fan is running at
1,258rpm, I am not sure that is to fast or not.

[Gary L. Gray]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Joelw135 wrote:

>
> I just checked my fans on my iMac and the CPU fan is running at
> 1,258rpm, I am not sure that is to fast or not.

That's about as slow as they will every go. Your log files must not be
that big.

-- Gary

[Peter Hosey]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 08:06:25, Joelw135 wrote:
> When I looked at the CPU usage I only see on the left PID=5225 what
> does that mean?

Please send a screenshot. Instructions for taking a screenshot are here:

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/cdb_scrshtfky.html
>

These instructions are the same on Mac OS X 10.6.

[Joelw135]

I took a screen shot, but how do I post it?

On Sep 5, 11:18 am, Peter Hosey <p...@growl.info> wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2009, at 08:06:25, Joelw135 wrote:
>
> > When I looked at the CPU usage I only see on the left PID=5225 what  
> > does that mean?
>
> Please send a screenshot. Instructions for taking a screenshot are here:
>

>         <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/cdb_scrshtfk...

[Peter Hosey]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 08:52:21, Joelw135 wrote:
> I uploaded the screen shot taken while doing a time machine
> backup.It is on the main page of this forum.

It actually doesn't matter whether you're doing a back-up or not.
TMG's workload is the same either way.

PID = Process IDentifier. Every process has one, and no two processes
have the same one.

The number of interest is “% CPU”, which you have it sorted by. TMG is
using 0% CPU, which is normal. You should see it spike every 10
seconds or so.