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| #!/bin/sh | |
| mkdir ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices |
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
In my particular case, following did NOT help:
killall -KILL com.apple.IconServicesAgentmkdir -p ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServicesHowever, I was watching its behaviour via
sudo fs_usage -f pathname -w com.apple.IconServicesAgent | grep openand 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.