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"ruby" process takes up 100% cpu???

iphong

iphong

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Aug 28, 2004
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It's starting to make me very mad here. I was just trying to enjoy my web browsing before sleep, and my Macbook Pro gets hot as hell. I looked at the processes activity and see ruby is taking up all the cpu cycle, together with syslogd (ruby:97%, syslogd: 37%). I force quit it, it comes right back, restart computer and as soon as I log in the fans boost up, and the laptop is hot again.

Somebody know if what is it doing? and can I stop it?

Thanks
 
Ruby is a programming language which is installed by default.

If this is the same Ruby then I have no clue what could cause it to take up so much CPU, from simple browsing alone.

Maybe try rebooting.
 
Actually the syslogd daemon is using ruby to do it's dirty work, when I quit syslogd, the ruby stops, but then syslogd comes right back and boost ruby up to 100% again. :confused:
 
mrchinchilla said:
My thoughts on the solution is reinstalling ruby.
Click to expand...

Don't do that: this isn't Ruby's fault. Search Google for "syslogd" and you'll find several reports of it running amok on OS X. But it isn't syslogd's fault either! It's just a background task for logging, so it only does anything when another process wants something logged.

Run /Applications/Utilities/Console.app, select "All Messages", and see what shows up. You might have a bajillion messages recently, from the same sender. If so, that sender is the culprit.
 
I looked at the sender there are like million of messages from pcast[192] and com.apple.pcastuploader_agent[192]. They have the same ID so I assume they are the same. Is that from Podcast Producer?
 
It looks like it. Can you disable Podcast Producer and see if your CPU gets a breather?

I'm not familiar with that software, so my advice here isn't likely to be very specific :). But Podcast Producer obviously seems to be confused for some reason... is it working properly otherwise? Since it appears to be trying to upload files, is there a way you can have it show you a list of any pending uploads and cancel them? What happens if you remove ~/Library/Application Support/pcastuploader/? (I wouldn't suggest deleting that directory, at least right away, but it's probably safe to move it away, for example to the desktop.)
 
It's really affecting my work so I had to reformat the hard drive, and reinstall Leopard. I don't have a lot of stuff on there, it's just my work station, so it doesn't bother me that much.

I have only used Podcast producer like once long time ago when I tried to setup my Leopard Server on other machine. I really didn't do anything much that time, and haven't touched it since then.
 
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