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10.5: One fix for a runaway syslogd process
Authored by: ugokanain on Nov 14, '07 12:41:05AM

Killing it might not be enough, for it can reappear causing the same problem again. The best solution is to stop the system log entirely, try:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist

Sometimes if you stop the culprit process and kill syslogd, it might not misbehave again. Though I haven't found this very consistent.

However, from what I have seen the problem with the system logger appears to be related to applications that do many file calls to different open files (azureus, nntp, time machine).



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