emma welles

i’ve had some trouble recently on my macbook running leopard.  i noticed that it was running very hot, and the fan was LOUD, so i checked the activity monitor and the process, syslogd was going nuts at 100+% CPU.  I don’t even know WTF it does, but certainly nothing I care enough to burn my thighs over.

so, fast forward a couple months.  after a few more incidents, downloading a temperature and fan speed monitor, and generally being paranoid that my computer will overheat itself to death, i decided this can’t be just an isolated incident. sure enough, the internet suggested a couple possible solutions for now, and hopefully this bug will be fixed in a patch soon.

try this:

• disable “back to my mac”
• stop time machine, force quit syslogd, restart time machine
• download a temperature/fan speed monitor to keep an eye on things