[geeks] OS X mystery...

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Shannon wrote:
> On 04-Jan-2014 11:17, Shannon wrote:
>> I have had an issue with my Mac Pro for months, where it is unable to fork()
>> any more, thus cannot start any apps.
>>
>> The issue is caused by a process table full of ps zombies.
>
> [ snip ]
>
> Figured this one out. Hopefully serve as useful information to other
> Apple users.
>
> The issue is caused by a hard drive monitoring menubar program, which
> for some reason fires off /bin/ps repeatedly as a child process and does
> not reap them.

... Which hard drive monitoring menubar program?

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Michael Parson
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