Mac OSX — Stop ’syslogd’ Being A CPU Hog
Since Apple released the first major update for Mac OS 10.5 (10.5.1) some users may have experienced a slowing down of their machines which, at first, looks like it’s caused by ‘syslogd‘.
To see if your Mac is suffering with this strange processor hogging problem open Activity Monitor (found in the Utilities folder in Applications). You might see something like the screenshot below which shows syslogd using a large percentage of the processor power.
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