[geeks] OS X mystery...

[Phil Stracchino]

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....?


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