Leopard Macbook very slow after waking up from sleep / cron?

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Published on 2010-04-28T11:36:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 11:43 UTC
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Problem:

  • Occasionally, my Macbook becomes very slow after waking up from sleep
  • I open Activity Monitor and notice some processes like makewhatis are taking 100% CPU
  • I kill the process[es] and then everything works fine again

Questions:

  • My guess is that these processes are cron jobs. Is that correct?
  • Is it ok to kill them?
  • Is there a way to make this problem not happen?
  • Is this fixed on Snow Leopard?

I'm using Leopard (10.5.8) on a MacBook5,1

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