Comments on: Mac OS X: Fix High CPU Usage by syslogd

By: Lukas

Lukas — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:15:34 +0000

I also suffer from horrible cpu spikes caused by timemachine .. oddly enough I dont even have the above mentioned file.

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By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:53:53 +0000

Thanks, fix worked perfect.

macbook:~ martin$ sudo file /var/log/asl.db
/var/log/asl.db: data

I’m guessing that means it’s either corrupt, or just shows that using massive binary blobs is a bad idea. I was using Instruments to debug some C code on 10.5.5, so I figure that might have pushed it.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:57:10 +0000

The same works for many other haywire root software problems, as well as renegade 3rd party issues.

By: dan mcweeney

dan mcweeney — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:04:39 +0000

This just fixed my runaway syslogd process! I have been killing the process for months, trying seeing nothing in the logs. This seems to have fixed it, BTW, my asl.db was 373M.

thanks for the tip.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:17:39 +0000

Yet another big thank you! Fan shut down seconds after moving the gigantic file.

By: Tomàs

Tomàs — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:55:31 +0000

Thank you! Same problem like you and same solution applied. Now everything’s working well!

By: Samantha House

Samantha House — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:01:22 +0000

This worked perfectly!

By: Jabba the Hut

Jabba the Hut — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:21:00 +0000

Thank you! That worked great!

By: Sean O'Brien

Sean O'Brien — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:01:57 +0000

THANK YOU!!!! I have been looking for a solution to the problem all night. Some didn’t work and others were way above my knowledge. My computer has been so slow and this totally took care of it. Honestly, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!