Syslog consuming 80 - 90 % of CPU

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  1. concordal, May 28, 2012

    concordal macrumors newbie

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    Hello.

    A few days ago my Mac slowed to a crawl. Activity Monitor shows that "syslog" is consuming 80 - 90% of the CPU. Sometimes there are two syslog activities running, both eating up the CPU.

    I'm running OSX 10.6.8 on an iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz with 8Gb memory I've killed th syslog process more than once, but it just re-appears.

    Any suggestions appreciated!
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  2. throAU, May 28, 2012

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    Find out which logfile is growing, and look into the problem that is being logged.
     
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  3. concordal, May 29, 2012

    concordal thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Solved - Syslog consuming 80 - 90 % of CPU

    Console showed that Geektool was running some weird process:

    " Geeklet 87D91A6C-320A-4A93-90B0-347CDD89720F. Task already running (syslog -F '$Time $M…)"​


    Stopped that and now all is well.

    Many thanks for the suggestion!
    :)
     
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