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MirrorAgent (Agent 007?) - why he suck cpu cycles?
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Neither Apple help nor a search of forum explains "MirrorAgent" although on occasion he sucks up 30-50% of CPU - something I discovered only by looking at "top" in Terminal after my MenuMeters showed huge usage. Typing in applications becomes VERY unresponsive as do other processes.
When I quit all applications "MirrorAgent" is still sucking cpu cycles. Only restarting gets it back down to 0.0% (!).
I can't tell that I'm using any diff applications than usual when this happens (e.g., usually just Safari, FileMaker, Mail, (maybe DreamWeaver MX).) But quitting the apps doesn't make MA any less hungry.
Can anyone enlightenment me on this inconsiderate gourmand?
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Mirror Agent mirrors your local iDisk to your iDisk. If you don't want it to do that, turn off automatic iDisk synching in the iDisk System Preferences.
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Thank you for the reply. I find, however that the syncing IS set to manual. The problem disappeared after a restart but is back again tonight -- even tho I find syncing STILL set to manual. Any other ideas?
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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PS: MirrorAgent does NOT show up in "ForceQuit" (I guess no background apps do?).
Is there a way to force such things? (Maybe I need to know a Terminal command?)
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Posting Junkie
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Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
PS: MirrorAgent does NOT show up in "ForceQuit" (I guess no background apps do?).
Is there a way to force such things? (Maybe I need to know a Terminal command?)
You could use kill (or killall) in the Terminal, but if you dislike the Terminal, the same thing can be done with the ProcessViewer app.
However, if you've got automatic syncing for something turned on, it'll probably just start MirrorAgent again at some point. If you really want to find out what's going on, maybe reading MirrorAgent's log file while it's working would yield some clues. There should be a log file in either /Library/Logs or ~/Library/Logs. See what it's syncing.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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If you wanna play hard-ball with it, MirrorAgent.app is located in /System/Library/CoreServices - you could try renaming it, rebooting and seeing what happens. It won't be able to launch that way (most likely)
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You can't eat all those hamburgers, you hear me you ridiculous man?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally posted by qnxde:
If you wanna play hard-ball with it, MirrorAgent.app is located in /System/Library/CoreServices - you could try renaming it, rebooting and seeing what happens. It won't be able to launch that way (most likely)
This is really not a good solution.
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