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What is syslogd?
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tripletaker
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Dec 8, 2005, 10:34 PM
 
What is syslogd and why is it always taking up taking up 100% cpu?

for the last couple of days this has always been here. I don't know why.
     
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Dec 9, 2005, 02:26 AM
 
syslogd is a system service that accepts log messages from various services and applications and writes them to the log files - it's the system's scribe in a sense. It shouldn't be taking all the processor time. It's a pretty essential service, so I would restart and see if it continues to act irregularly.

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Dec 10, 2005, 07:23 AM
 
It still continues. When I'm not doing anything it takes up 92% CPU. This has never happened to be in the 11 months I have had this computer.

Mac OS X 10.4.3
1.67 GHz PowerPC G4
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