[geeks] OS X mystery...

[Cory Smelosky]

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> On 10 Jan 2014, at 12:09, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>
>> On 01/10/14 11:39, Michael Parson wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> What a very bizarre thing to do.  This is supposed to monitor the hard
> drive how, exactly....?

By killing it faster obviously.

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