My problem is that is taking a long time. and that it hog up 100%.
I have had all the big cats on my mac. But never had anything like this.
Hmm . . . I really won´t reinstall leopard
What you can try is reading out the last errors printed. If you open the terminal (/Applications/Utilities/terminal) and type:
syslog -k Time ge -30
it will tell you what's been dumped in the last 30 seconds. If there's no output, hit the up arrow at the next prompt to reinsert the command and add a zero onto the end to check the last 300 seconds. Keep doing this until you get some output and see what output is causing the problem.
If there is no significant output, try doing a drive verify as well as a repair permissions and reboot afterwards.
mdworker is part of Spotlight's indexing of meta data.
If syslogd is constantly thrashing your disk saving errors to the log, the file system will be slow and mdworker will possibly be dragging it down too.
Check out the system logs for errors. I had a couple of things causing errors when I updated from 10.4 to 10.5 that needed removing. Sometimes USB devices cause errors too. InputManager hacks sometimes cause issues too - eg. Safari hacks and some of Unsanity's APE hacks. LittleSnitch prior to v2 caused issues for me and an old USB audio driver.
mdworker is part of Spotlight's indexing of meta data.
If syslogd is constantly thrashing your disk saving errors to the log, the file system will be slow and mdworker will possibly be dragging it down too.
Check out the system logs for errors. I had a couple of things causing errors when I updated from 10.4 to 10.5 that needed removing. Sometimes USB devices cause errors too. InputManager hacks sometimes cause issues too - eg. Safari hacks and some of Unsanity's APE hacks. LittleSnitch prior to v2 caused issues for me and an old USB audio driver.
dang ! That was fast !
Very thankful for this one. using disktools as I write this.
I am having the same problem. syslogd seems to be hovering around 97 percent all the time. What did you do to fix the problem? My Mac is so slow!!
Thanks!!
I was using Transmission, which is a bittorrent client. And was constantly writing to disk. So I guess it was spotlight or the file-journaling that constantly happened.
So every time I need my iMac to be really fast, that application is quitted.
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It doesn't do it all the time so I'd say just be patient and wait for it to finish writing.
It's the system log daemon. Essentially it's a program that writes system info to a log file.
It doesn't do it all the time so I'd say just be patient and wait for it to finish writing.
My problem is that is taking a long time. and that it hog up 100%.
I have had all the big cats on my mac. But never had anything like this.
Hmm . . . I really won´t reinstall leopard
My problem is that is taking a long time. and that it hog up 100%.
I have had all the big cats on my mac. But never had anything like this.
Hmm . . . I really won´t reinstall leopard
What you can try is reading out the last errors printed. If you open the terminal (/Applications/Utilities/terminal) and type:
syslog -k Time ge -30
it will tell you what's been dumped in the last 30 seconds. If there's no output, hit the up arrow at the next prompt to reinsert the command and add a zero onto the end to check the last 300 seconds. Keep doing this until you get some output and see what output is causing the problem.
If there is no significant output, try doing a drive verify as well as a repair permissions and reboot afterwards.
If you're not ok with Terminal, Use /Applications/Utilities/Console
Then open the system log and error logs from the file menu.
You may also want to investigate the logs in the 'Open Quickly' menu.
I didn´t mentioned it, but there is an additional process that is killing my machine: mdworker
Very often it is about 100%.
Like now.... syslogd is 95 % and mdworker is 92 %
My system is very sluggish . obviously .
And I don´t install many apps. I seldom try out new apps.
Now happy with this.
Zon.
And thanks for all suggestions !
If syslogd is constantly thrashing your disk saving errors to the log, the file system will be slow and mdworker will possibly be dragging it down too.
Check out the system logs for errors. I had a couple of things causing errors when I updated from 10.4 to 10.5 that needed removing. Sometimes USB devices cause errors too. InputManager hacks sometimes cause issues too - eg. Safari hacks and some of Unsanity's APE hacks. LittleSnitch prior to v2 caused issues for me and an old USB audio driver.
mdworker is part of Spotlight's indexing of meta data.
If syslogd is constantly thrashing your disk saving errors to the log, the file system will be slow and mdworker will possibly be dragging it down too.
Check out the system logs for errors. I had a couple of things causing errors when I updated from 10.4 to 10.5 that needed removing. Sometimes USB devices cause errors too. InputManager hacks sometimes cause issues too - eg. Safari hacks and some of Unsanity's APE hacks. LittleSnitch prior to v2 caused issues for me and an old USB audio driver.
dang ! That was fast !
Very thankful for this one. using disktools as I write this.
Zon
dang ! That was fast !
Very thankful for this one. using disktools as I write this.
Zon
I am having the same problem. syslogd seems to be hovering around 97 percent all the time. What did you do to fix the problem? My Mac is so slow!!
Thanks!!
I am having the same problem. syslogd seems to be hovering around 97 percent all the time. What did you do to fix the problem? My Mac is so slow!!
Thanks!!
I was using Transmission, which is a bittorrent client. And was constantly writing to disk. So I guess it was spotlight or the file-journaling that constantly happened.
So every time I need my iMac to be really fast, that application is quitted.
zon