[Macpartners] 10.11.4: distnoted out of control

[Andy McPherson]

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.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM, John Hawkinson <jhawk at mit.edu> wrote:

> Under 10.10, I've seen this problem related to emacs, and restarting emacs
> seems to solve it. Some vague notes at
>  http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/111197/runaway-distnoted-process
>
> Are you/your users emacs users?
>
> --jhawk
>
> Andy McPherson <andymcp at mit.edu> wrote on Thu, 12 May 2016
> at 10:13:58 -0400 in <
> CAOo8nmtghwA9BavKZ1FB9BO+UoAbBKwuufkb063esUu-RUHK1g at mail.gmail.com>:
>
>
> > Good Morning!
> >
> > Since upgrading many of my machines to 10.11.4 I started running into
> > problems where a handful of them would consistently get incredibly slow
> and
> > more often than not, users were greeted with a beachball when trying to
> > unlock their screen.
> >
> > Via SSH I was able to find out it was the "distnoted" process (part of
> > notification services) that was eating up all the CPU. After killing it,
> > things would immediately go back to normal. I tried OS re-installs, fresh
>



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Andy McPherson
Systems Administrator


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