<div dir="ltr">No emacs here. My users are pretty much just using the latest versions of Apple Mail, Calendar, Firefox, MS Office and Acrobat DC. Nothing out of the ordinary.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM, John Hawkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhawk@mit.edu" target="_blank">jhawk@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Under 10.10, I've seen this problem related to emacs, and restarting emacs<br>
seems to solve it. Some vague notes at<br>
<a href="http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/111197/runaway-distnoted-process" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/111197/runaway-distnoted-process</a><br>
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Are you/your users emacs users?<br>
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--jhawk<br>
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Andy McPherson <<a href="mailto:andymcp@mit.edu">andymcp@mit.edu</a>> wrote on Thu, 12 May 2016<br>
at 10:13:58 -0400 in <<a href="mailto:CAOo8nmtghwA9BavKZ1FB9BO%2BUoAbBKwuufkb063esUu-RUHK1g@mail.gmail.com">CAOo8nmtghwA9BavKZ1FB9BO+UoAbBKwuufkb063esUu-RUHK1g@mail.gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> Good Morning!<br>
><br>
> Since upgrading many of my machines to 10.11.4 I started running into<br>
> problems where a handful of them would consistently get incredibly slow and<br>
> more often than not, users were greeted with a beachball when trying to<br>
> unlock their screen.<br>
><br>
> Via SSH I was able to find out it was the "distnoted" process (part of<br>
> notification services) that was eating up all the CPU. After killing it,<br>
> things would immediately go back to normal. I tried OS re-installs, fresh<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:20px"><font color="#999999">Andy McPherson<br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Systems Administrator</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:20px"><img src="https://mitgsl.mit.edu/sites/all/themes/mit_gsl_theme/logo.png"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:20px"><font color="#999999">77 Massachusetts Ave., 14N-308, Cambridge, MA 02139<br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:andymcp@mit.edu" style="color:rgb(126,87,194)" target="_blank">andymcp@mit.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> | p: 617.253.9776 | f: 617.258.6189</span></font></p></div></div>
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