IconServiceAgent

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

I've seen this myself, once or twice. If you search the web for 
com.apple.IconServicesAgent you will find plenty of reports. For instance

http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2014/01/07/an-issue-in-mavericks-with-com-dot-apple-dot-iconservicesagent/

It is seemingly more a glitch in OSX 10.9 w.r.t. temporary folders, than 
anything to do with macports, although macports for some reason seems 
prone to triggering it.

In my case I just removed (using sudo) the temporary directories that 
where causing the problem (use Console to find out what those are for 
you), rebooted the system and it went away. Haven't seen it come back 
for a while now.

Chris


On 05/03/14 15:45, Eric Gallager wrote:
> What system are you running on? I do not have that daemon on my
> system... Anyway, to deal with unkillable daemons, you usually have to
> mess with launchd via launchctl, but I am not sure how you would do that
> for the macports user, seeing as it is a "no login" user as you mentioned...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Ghyslain Leclerc <ghleclerc at gmail.com
> <mailto:ghleclerc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hello.
>
>     Sorry if this is a known problem.  Been Googling for hours now and
>     searching the archive up to 6-7 months back to no avail.
>
>     I would like to know if someone else has a problem with Macports and
>     the IconServicesAgent process.
>
>     I have a com.apple.IconServicesAgent process running as the macports
>     user (confirmed via Activity Monitor) which takes 100% CPU for one
>     of my core (almost, confirmed via Activity Monitor and the ps
>     command on the terminal) and which I cannot kill.  Actually, I
>     cannot force quit it in activity monitor, but I can kill it with the
>     kill command in Terminal, but it comes back right away.
>
>     I have looked everywhere for a solution.  I have found that creating
>     a temporary folder where the service can work solved to problem for
>     regular users, but I don’t know how to find the temporary folder for
>     a “no login” user like macports.  Anyhow, I might be saying stupid
>     things.  My apologies if it’s the case.  Not an expert in computers.
>
>     Anyhow, if someone could let me know if it’s a known problem and if
>     there is a solution or if I should just accept that my machine now
>     as one less core.
>
>     Thanks
>     Ghyslain
>
>
>     P.S. : Sorry for my English.  Not my first language.
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