Re: Fsevents changes in OS X 10.7.1 or 10.7.2
Re: Fsevents changes in OS X 10.7.1 or 10.7.2
- Subject: Re: Fsevents changes in OS X 10.7.1 or 10.7.2
- From: Steve Goddard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:21:39 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Dominic,
It is a customer machine, I will ask, but I don't know for sure.
It is definitely something to verify.
I am having the customer try and use dtruss/fs_usage to see if they can determine what is going on to cause the event buffer to reach capacity and drop events.
Thanks.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dominic Giampaolo" <email@hidden>
> To: "Steve Goddard" <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 11:15:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Fsevents changes in OS X 10.7.1 or 10.7.2
>
> > We are running into an issue which looks like one possible cause
> > might be by the polling of the fsevents. The issue appears to be
> > only occurring in OS X 10.7.2 as far as we know. The symptoms are
> > that the dock process starts chewing up CPU and memory.
> >
> Do you have Dropbox or a similar type of utility installed?
> They have a known bug where they're using undocumented
> interfaces to /dev/fsevents and they wind up causing bad
> things to happen.
>
>
> --dominic
>
>
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