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<h6>Syslogd Overwhelming Your Computer?</h6>
<p><p>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.</p>
<p>Launch Terminal (from the same Utilities folder), and enter these commands exactly as written, entering your administrative password when prompted:</p>
<p>sudo launchctl stop com.apple.syslogd</p>
<p>sudo rm /var/log/asl.db</p>
<p>sudo launchctl start com.apple.syslogd</p>
<p>Your system should settle down to normal. For more information, follow the link.</p></p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://smartic.us/2007/11/8/leopard-100-cpu-usage-caused-by-syslogd-and-possibly-time-machine">Discussion of syslogd problem at Smarticus</a></p>
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<a href="/article/4168"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4168', 'show')">Macworld Big Apple</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/2215"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2215', 'show')">Net Regulation in Germany</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/2163"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2163', 'show')">TCP/IP CC Apology</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 05 May 1997</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 24 Feb 1997</div></div>
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<a href="/article/818"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('818', 'show')">AetherWorks Breaks the Sound Barrier</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/823"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('823', 'show')">The Email Man Always Downloads Twice</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 11 Nov 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/872"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('872', 'show')">Apple Unveils Fast Servers at Seybold</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 16 Sep 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/919"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('919', 'show')">BulkRate to Speak TCP/IP</a></h4>
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