What is SFLicontool

[MacHiavelli]

Hi

Have searched on the net without luck for this already.

My 2008 MBP running 10.7.2 (Lion) was getting very hot, so I checked the activity monitor and noticed that SFLicontool was using 99% of the CPU, had 2178 threads running, and gobbling up 2.84 GB of memory.

I tried to quit the process from the activity monitor, but it couldn't stop SFLicontool from running.

I tried to turn the MBP off, but it refused to shut down - I eventually had to pull the power.

Has now rebooted and there is no sign of SFLicontool in the activity monitor.

Anyone know what it is?

Thanks in advance.

 

[old-wiz]

There are several threads about this on the apple forums. Start with a google search for "sflicontool mac"

 

[MacHiavelli]

There are several threads about this on the apple forums. Start with a google search for "sflicontool mac"

Thanks for that.

I tried all of those this morning before coming to MacRumors - unfortunately none of them identify exactly what sflicontool is and what it is doing.

 

[MacHiavelli]

Just had this problem again: SFLicontool taking up 3gb of memory and 99.9% of CPU!!!

Anyone know what it is? Icon related, presumably, but what is it doing using up so many resources?