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DirectoryService task is taking up almost all CPU power

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afultz075

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Ever since a few days ago, I notice mainly when my MBP is not connected to the internet, that istat will show a process called "DirectoryService" that is taking up a ridiculous amount of CPU power (sometimes up to 190%). It doesn't seem to slow my computer down much, but I can tell it's stressing the processor as it becomes extremely hot when this process is running. When I open terminal it shows this is a root process. Like I said, it only seems to occur when my computer is offline.

Any idea what this is?
 
Hm, well it is related to networking. You usually have a share mounted when you're connected to a network?
 
Looks like I have the same issue as of today. There are a bunch of posts about this over at the apple discussion forum as well.
 
I would hazard a guess that the culprit is actually 10.5.1.

It's a good thing really that 10.5.2 is supposedly just around the corner.
 
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