Syslogd Overwhelming Your Computer?
If your Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) system is unexpectedly sluggish, logging might be the culprit. Run Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities/ folder), and click the CPU column twice to get it to show most to least activity. If syslogd is at the top of the list, there's a fix. Syslogd tracks informational messages produced by software and writes them to the asl.db, a file in your Unix /var/log/ directory. It's a known problem that syslogd can run amok. There's a fix: deleting the asl.db file.
Launch Terminal (from the same Utilities folder), and enter these commands exactly as written, entering your administrative password when prompted:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.syslogd
sudo rm /var/log/asl.db
sudo launchctl start com.apple.syslogd
Your system should settle down to normal. For more information, follow the link.
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TidBITS#259/16-Jan-95
News of the first Macintosh clones and Apple's set-top CD-ROM player appears in this issue, as does an article about Connectix's cute QuickCam video camera. Geoff Duncan looks at the GIF fiasco spawned by Unisys and CompuServe in more depth, and we review SimTower from Maxis. Finally for you addicts out there, Bungie now has an official Marathon Web site.
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