This has happened a couple times when I've plugged in my Macbook to recharge it; my CPU usage will jump with the fans going ~4800 rpms and iStat menus reports that DirectoryServices is using 100% of my CPU. My computer becomes unresponsive (spinning ball, choppy mouse movement) and I have to do a hard restart as nothing responds. Has anyone else experienced this?
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100% DirectoryServices CPU utilization?
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The same thing has happened to me twice in the last 24 hours, and I can't understand why... when I got home late last night, I noticed my fans were running hard, and iStat told me that DirectoryService was using 140% CPU. The dock crashed and I had to do a hard restart, but that everything after that was fine. I used my computer as normal, it was on all night playing iTunes and downloading. Today, all I used was regular Mail and Safari stuff, as well as iTunes and Transmission. I left my computer for a while, and when I came back, DirectoryServices once again was using up like 100% CPU... I couldn't even open Activity Monitor or Finder (they just bounced in the dock for a while and just sat there). Any solutions? Or at least, any ideas of what's going on?
I had the exact same problem but I uninstalled Perian, as it failed a couple of times doing its version check, and I haven't had the problem since.
So it really seems to be some kind of being offline problem with apps that go into a neverending loop.
So it really seems to be some kind of being offline problem with apps that go into a neverending loop.
This problem is still around in 10.5.2
I can't reproduce the problem, so won't be able to tell if uninstalling Perian fixes it or not.
Has it still not returned for you?