PrintJobMgr Uses 99% CPU
I couldn’t understand why everything on my new iMac started creeping really slow. The last straw was when iTunes started skipping.
I opened up the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder, set it to view “All Processes”, and noticed that a process named “PrintJobMgr” was using a lot of processor time and took up over 600MB.
As it turns out, this has been discussed on Apple’s forums. It seems to be happening to people when there is a print job that never was printed, and thus is continually waiting in the print queue. I’m not sure how, but this is exactly what happened on my iMac, and deleting the print job in the queue fixed the problem.
I’m hoping Apple fixes that one soon.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Thank you! This happened to me and your instructions solved it! I owe you a debt of gratitude for making my fan stop spinning at 6000 RPM day and night. Thanks again.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:14 am
thanks! I think you saved me hours of scratching my head.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I don´t know who you are, i don´t know where you are..but i love you!!!! thank thank thank…i tought i have to reinstall, to change some hardware, to loose lot of time…then i´ve read your post! TNX!
March 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
People thinks that Leopard sucks battery but I think that this could be the problem!!!
Thanks!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 am
Thx a lot, in 2s I have resolve the problem