syslogd and my wondering wtf is going on

May 7th, 2008 by Mike | Posted in random |

So last night I discovered the Twitterverse screensaver in the Developers folder included with Xcode via TUAW and as I was trying to get the damn screensaver to work I noticed a problem I was having a while back…

As I was trying to load the screen saver in my System Preferences, the background daemon or whatever titled ’syslogd’ was eating up 100% of my processors (so, 1/2 of my total CPU).

Here’s a screen cap (click for fill size):

Now, I’ve blogged about this before and from what I understood, syslogd worked with TimeMachine trying to prepare itself for backup, but from how I’m seeing it, I think syslogd has to do with Screen Savers given that back when I wrote my first blog I was having issues with screen savers as well… then again this time, syslogd only acts up when I try to use/preview the Twitterverse screen saver whereas last time it was just going crazy whenever it damn well felt like it.

Anyone have any idea as to what is going on here?