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10.5: One fix for a runaway syslogd process
Yep, I just got hit by the runaway syslogd process on my Quad G5. I use Temperature Monitor so I could see the records of my CPU temp going up for long periods of time. It had such high CPU utilization, it made the fans run higher, syslogd seemed to run for hours and I sure don't want to put a strain on the old cooling system. I can't imagine what this would do to battery life on a laptop Mac.
But I saw another fix. I guess we should do this through official methods, use lanchctl to stop it and then delete the database (which can grow quite large, it will be recreated on startup). Use these terminal commands: sudo launchctl stop com.apple.syslogd sudo rm /var/log/asl.db You can restart syslogd: sudo launchctl start com.apple.syslogd Once the daemon is stopped and the DB is purged, it seems to run stably when you restart it. According to a comment here, where I found this solution, this is logged as a bug with Apple and hopefully there will be a fix in an update. Now if only I could figure out why I get runaway Finder processes. It puts just as big a load on the CPU as syslogd did.
10.5: One fix for a runaway syslogd process
I found I had to nuke my system.log file as well, which was over 5GB...since then, syslogd is behaving (well, for at least 15 minutes...)
10.5: One fix for a runaway syslogd process
I tried that solution as well. It seems to working. Personally my problem seemed to be caused by the program managing the HSDPA modem. It is logging as crazy indeed. So I did two things:
10.5: One fix for a runaway syslogd process
I can also confirm that zapping the file asl.db fixed the problem. My file was about 2 months old and had grown to around 250Mb. The system log file was full of three line messages varying from seconds to a minute apart telling me that syslogd had a memory error. |
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