Randomly on my computer I noticed very high CPU use while the computer was otherwise idle. I have narrowed it to the launchd and syslogd processes, taking up roughly 85% of my CPU for no good reason. I do have a TM backup that I could restore from, but that takes a while, so is there any way I could make them stop? (Already tried quitting from Activity monitor, it simply restarted my computer and didn't fix the problem)EDIT- Nevermind, it just went away on its own. Weird.
Is there a way to run a shell script before shutdown with launchd? In 10.4, I have a shell script to remove user's folder when a user logs off. how to do a rc.shutdown in 10.5
My fiancee's Macbook is having an issue where the syslog will take over an incredible amount of the CPU (Activity Monitor frequently has it pegged in the high-90s-percentile) and run continuously, making the machine heat up and causing the fans to run continuously, which drains the battery quickly. I've done a bunch of searches on it, but the only fixes I've found refer to syslogd (which is not causing problems on her machine), not syslog.
I've still tried to apply a number of those fixes which have all failed, including manually killing the process in Activity Monitor (which caused huge Airport/Time Capsule problems on my own MBP) and deleting the asl.db file (which didn't help at all)... kind of running out of options here and getting frustrated.She's running OS 10.5.8 on a 2.16 GHz chip with 1GB of RAM.
I have this NAS drive (a 1 TB QNAP TS-209 Pro) where I keep most of my files, so I want to auto-mount two shares on that drive upon login. In Windows, it was a set-and-forget type thing. In OS X it was a little harder, I eventually got there by disabling the firewall and placing the NAS shares under Login Items and checking "Hide". This works fine on my old Mac Mini and my iMac, but on my new MBP I get some really crazy stuff. Two processes called "coreservicesd" and "System Services" (under the parent "launchd") are taking up 40-50% CPU each. This goes on for 10 minutes before it settles down, by which time some 10-15% have been drained from the battery.
(On login the estimate is 2 hours left on a fully charged MBP 17"... it jumps to 5-6 hours as soon as the CPU insanity stops). If I unmount the drive, the CPU hogging stops immediately. I can then re-mount it without getting the crazy CPU load phenomenon. I can also remove it from Login Items and mount manually through Finder with no problems. As soon as I place it under Login Items again, CPU usage shoots up to 40-50% again, this time System Preferences is listed as the culprit. Any ideas why the CPU is going berserk from connecting to a simple network drive via smb, and only when the volumes are included in Login Items? The problem is specific to this week-old computer, so let's not blame the NAS drive just yet.
Problem is pretty much summarized in the topic line. Had a distnoted process that was eating up all my CPU. Killed it in Activity Monitor, and the computer hung. Forced a restart, and it won't...restart. Tried a safe reboot, resetting the NRAM...no joy.
2012 (I believe) iMac running the latest version of OS X Mavericks.
com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.launchd.peruser.32653[18543]) getpwuid("32653") failed in console... every 10 sec... where can I clean this noisy every 10 sec. starting operation in my console?
I recently reinstalled Lion on my Air to clean up a few issues, but it seems to have created new ones. This is what I see at the top of Activity Monitor pretty much constantly now.
I selected 48 folders in Finder and pressed Getinfo which opened 48 windows reluctantly. How to close all 48 windows using activity monitor. Problem is that activity monitor does not show any PID with getinfo name. Mine is OSX Lion 10.7.3 (MBP 2011)
Info: MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My MacBook Pro continues to show random unexplainable processes in the Activity Monitor window. Nothing seems to be wrong with any aspect of the laptop and functions correctly?
Info: MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I am a windows dude, you can tell. I need to turn off unnecessary processes on a Mac. In "Windows", I would edit the startup processes... and in Computer admin, turn off all "services" I did not need.
What do I do on a Mac? I need it to be permanent, not temporary (like I know how to shut off iTunes helper for a session- I want it off after restarts, too.
Also, I want to pare this mac down to just the essentials- any advice for what to kill, and what I should not touch?
I would like to disable some processes from starting upon login, but can't figure out how. I am not referring to the Login Items of System Preferences>Accounts. I have checked /Library/StartupItems/ (empty), /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist (essentially empty), and ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist (which only contains the things that i do want, it matches my account preferences).
when i check activity monitor, i notice some processes or programs running that I had deleted. how do i get them to completely stop running when i reboot? it seems that there are some rogue background processes running.
I recently added more RAM to my system and I always keep Activity Monitor running with the memory usage icon on the Dock to see how much Lion and my programs use. I noticed that even several CS5 programs running at the same time won't use that much, the program I've seen uses the most is Aperture, using anywhere from 500MB on start to 2.5GB while viewing--not editing--photos.
My questions is, when my system is running normally it uses from a quarter to half the total memory available but just now it's using more than three quarters and it's running not even half programs I use everyday. I quickly added up the memory being used and it's just missing out A LOT. I'm adding a screenshot of Activity Monitor for you to see.
I now that restarting the system (or by using the purge command in Terminal) will free up memory but this really puzzles me and I'd really like to know what's happening--BTW, even though several GB are missing, the computer is nowhere nears slow, at least. Where are all the other processes using the rest of the memory? I'm using OS X 10.7.3 Server with 16GB of RAM on an iMac.
Noticed a couple of processes in activity monitor I don't think I have seen before. Authorizationhos and ocspd. if they also have them or if they are supposed to be there and what they do?
Been having a problem with my Mac Pro for some time, so decided to monitor and see what the cause is: I have been seeing a lot of this in kernel.log Feb 15 02:25:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: proc: table is full And Also this:
Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_allocate_cluster - send HI_WAT_ALERT Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: macx_swapon FAILED - 12 Feb 15 01:39:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
So, i ran a cron job every 10 minutes to try and find out if i have something that is continuoulsy forking new processes. At the time of my latest crash I had over 700 processes like this:
14885 322 0 1:21AM ?? 0:00.01 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Resources/logoutHelp er 502 99 of these: /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent
Where in Leopard 10.6.8 can I see running processes, or something interfering with iSight camera being engaged in Skype video call? I have theory that some other process in my Mac is trying to use camera and that freezes existing video. My theory has a problem since on my other iMac video never starts. Spinning white wheel is there forever, for duration of conversation.
Info: iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 more iMacs, 3 x MacBooks, MacMini
repeated disk access in my 2010 Mac Pro, even when it's otherwise idle. Activity Monitor shows no unusual processes, and I've disabled Spotlight indexing.
I just woke up my MacBook Pro, and the HD sounded like there was something going on. It wasn't the indexing, so I opened up Activity Monitor and found something taking 10-30% CPU called "find". It was under several instances of "sh", and I think it's first parent was "locate.code" or something like that. Anyway, after a while I opened Activity Monitor again, and the "find" process was replaced by something called "makewhatis". It disappeared almost a second after I opened Activity Monitor. Obviously it's just part of the system, but what exactly do these processes do?
A long time ago this other process, called Safari, but with the default application icon, started using up 70% of my CPU. I know they are different processes because: I can see both processes at the same time in the processes list when Safari is open, it still takes up 70-100% even when the REAL Safari is closed. Also, no matter what it open, Now there's two! You know how the root application reports crashes? Well, apparently it's reporting millions. It's using 70%-100% of my CPU too! A bunch of other root programs are taking 20%-30%, so that totals up to over 250% of my CPU!
Safari locking up originally. I would get beach balls pretty often, and simple tasks like opening a new tab would take a long time. One day last week I noticed it took like 30 minutes to index in spotlight..just random weird things like that.Yesterday, I got home and the computer had the little loading icon on the middle of my desktop and was completely locked up. The computer wasnt doing anything other than running normal processes.
After "upgrading" to Lion, my MacPro refuses to complete either a Restart or Shut Down cycle. How can I discover what is hanging up the process? System: MacPro1,1; 8GB RAM, OS X 10.7.3, 4x2TB internal drives, all software updates applied.
how do i stop two processes that are running in Activity Monitor took one out of trash and it says preparing to move desktop still running with another one been running for hrs now want to stop these.
