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| #!/bin/sh | |
| mkdir ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices |
I found a fix that seems to work, see http://blog.hsoi.com/2014/02/25/my-slow-mac-mavericks-coreservicesd-iconservices agent-and-how-fs_usage-saved-me/comment-page-1/
If you have the same problem and the solutions given in this thread don't work, please run sudo fs_usage -f pathname -w com.apple.IconServicesAgent | grep open in the Terminal and post your output here.
For me, XCode seemed to be the problem.
Uninstalled XCode by sudo -r /Applications/XCode.app. Cleared all caches by sudo rm -r /Library/Caches and ~/Library/Caches, then mkdir of the same (don’t know and think that this step is necessary). Reinstalled XCode.
Problem gone.
mkdir ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices worked for me. Dunno if it's just temporary, though
this what i got - after 12 hours of
sudo fs_usage -f pathname -w com.apple.IconServicesAgent | grep open
[0x211] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x647] - extension: jpg, UTI: public.jpeg, fileType: ????.
In my particular case, following did NOT help:
killall -KILL com.apple.IconServicesAgent
mkdir -p ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices
However, I was watching its behaviour via
sudo fs_usage -f pathname -w com.apple.IconServicesAgent | grep open
and saw extensive activity in various dirs (including VLC dir, and inside some system services dirs, like /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources). I could reinstall VLC, but IOStorageFamily is sort of built in...
Anyway, after a bit deeper research, the culprit turned out to be XtraFinder! I restarted and updated XtraFinder, and so far IconServicesAgent has been quiet.
The first sorry for my English. I am Spanish and I try to write so that you understand me.
I have the problem you described long ago about iconservicesagent, a process that triggers to consume RAM when I open an external hard drive.
I have been communicating with apple technicians but I have seen that all they did was experiment with my computer without knowing exactly what they were doing or why.
Finally, I told them that what I wanted was for them to look for the global error and make a patch, because it was evident (it was only necessary to search Google for "iconservicesagent" to see that many more people were the same), it's a big problem.
I do not know if you have continued investigating about that problem, but I would like to know if you have any progress because I can not work with that external hard drive and from Apple they do not find the solution.
Thank you very much for your time. Regards
it throws me