Runaway coreservicesd in 10.6.8

coreservicesd is taking 98% CPU according to Activity monitor. This on a 17" 2011 MBPro. How do I fix this problem?
TIA,
Bill

Try beginning using a safe boot, Shut down, restart hold the shift key at the chime and continue holding till you see the PROGRESS BAR. This will take longer that a normal boot, log in, then log out (this will take longer as well) and reboot normally.

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How to kill Forms Runaway Process using 95% CPU and running for 2 hours.

We had a situation at E-Business Suite customer (using Oracle VM server) where some of Form processes were not being cleared by form timeout settings automatically.
Also when user exits the form session from front end, the linux form process (PID) and DB session did not exit properly, so they got hung.
They were spiking CPU and memory usage and causing e-business suite to perform slowely and ultimately causing VM host to reboot the production VM guest (running on Linux).
We could see the form processes (PIDs) using almost 100% cpu with "top" command and running for a long time.
Also we verified those Form Sessions did not exist in the application itself.
ie. Using from Grid Control -> OAM-> Site Map -> Monitoring (tab) -> "Form Sessions".
It means that we could safely kill that form process from Linux using "kill -9 <PID>" command.
But that required a continuous monitoring and manual DBA intervention as customer is 24x7 customer.
So, I wrote a shell script to do the following;
•     Cron job runs every half an hour 7 days a week which calls this shell script.
•     Shell script runs and tries to find "top two" f60webmx processes (form sessions) using over 95% cpu with 2 minutes interval.
•     If no process is found or CPU% is less than 95%, it exits and does nothing.
•     If top process is found, it searches for its DB session using apps login (with hidden apps password file - /home/applmgr/.pwd).
a.     If DB session is NOT found (which means form process is hung), it kills the process from unix and emails results to <[email protected]>
b.     If DB session is found, it waits for 2 hours so that form process times automatically via form session timeout setting.
It also emails the SQL to check the DB session for that form process.
c.     If DB session is found and it does not timeout after 2 hours,
it kills the process from unix (which in turn kills the DB session). Output is emailed.
This are the files required for this;
1. Cron job which calls the shell script looks like this;
# Kill form runaway process, using over 95% cpu having no DB session or DB session for > 2hrs
00,30 * * * * /home/applmgr/forms_runaway.sh 2>&1
2. SQL that this script calls is /home/applmgr/frm_runaway.sql and looks like;
set head off
set verify off
set feedback off
set pagesize 0
define form_client_PID = &1
select count(*) from v$session s , v$process p, FND_FORM_SESSIONS_V f where S.AUDSID=f.audsid and p.addr=s.paddr and s.process='&form_client_PID';
3. Actual shell script is /home/applmgr/forms_runaway.sh and looks like;
# Author : Amandeep Singh
# Description : Kills runaway form processes using more than 95% cpu
# and Form Session with no DB session or DB session > 2hrs
# Dated : 11-April-2012
#!/bin/bash
. /home/applmgr/.bash_profile
PWD=`cat ~/.pwd`
export PWD
echo "`date`">/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "----------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
VAR1=`top -b -u applmgr -n 1|grep f60webmx|grep -v sh|grep -v awk|grep -v top|sort -nrk9|head -2|sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'| awk '{ if ($9 > 95 && $12 = "f60webmx") print $1 " "$9 " "$11 " "$12; }'`
PID1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $1}'`
CPU1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $2}'`
TIME1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $3}'`
PROG1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $4}'`
PID_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $5}'`
CPU_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $6}'`
TIME_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $7}'`
PROG_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $8}'`
echo "PID1="$PID1", CPU%="$CPU1", Running Time="$TIME1", Program="$PROG1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID_1="$PID_1", CPU%="$CPU_1", Running Time="$TIME_1", Program="$PROG_1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
sleep 120
echo "`date`">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "----------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
VAR2=`top -b -u applmgr -n 1|grep f60webmx|grep -v sh|grep -v awk|grep -v top|sort -nrk9|head -2|sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'| awk '{ if ($9 > 95 && $12 = "f60webmx") print $1 " "$9 " "$11 " "$12; }'`
PID2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $1}'`
CPU2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $2}'`
TIME2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $3}'`
PROG2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $4}'`
PID_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $5}'`
CPU_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $6}'`
TIME_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $7}'`
PROG_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $8}'`
HRS=`echo $TIME1|cut -d: -f1`
exprHRS=`expr "$HRS"`
echo "PID2="$PID2", CPU%="$CPU2", Running Time="$TIME2", Program="$PROG2>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID_2="$PID_2", CPU%="$CPU_2", Running Time="$TIME_2", Program="$PROG_2>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
# If PID1 or PID2 is NULL
if [ -z ${PID1} ] || [ -z ${PID2} ]
then
echo "no top processes found. Either PID is NULL OR CPU% is less than 95%. Exiting...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
elif
# If PID1 is equal to PID2 or PID1=PID_2 or PID_1=PID2 or PID_1=PID_2
[ ${PID1} -eq ${PID2} ] || [ ${PID1} -eq ${PID_2} ] || [ ${PID_1} -eq ${PID2} ] || [ ${PID_1} -eq ${PID_2} ];
then
DB_SESSION=`$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -S apps/$PWD @/home/applmgr/frm_runaway.sql $PID1 << EOF
EOF`
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "DB_SESSION ="$DB_SESSION >>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
# if no DB session found for PID
if [ $DB_SESSION -eq 0 ] then
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "Killed Following Runaway Forms Process:">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID="$PID1", CPU%="$CPU1", Running Time="$TIME1", Program="$PROG1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
kill -9 $PID1
#Email the output
mailx -s "Killed: `hostname -a` Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
else
# If DB session exists for PID
if [ ${exprHRS} -gt 120 ]; then
echo $DB_SESSION "of Database sessions exist for this forms process-PID="$PID1". But its running for more than 2 hours. ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "Process running time is "$exprHRS" minutes.">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "Killed Following Runaway Forms Process:">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID="$PID1", CPU%="$CPU1", Running Time="$TIME1", Program="$PROG1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
kill -9 $PID1
#Email the output
mailx -s "`hostname -a`: Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
else
echo "Process running time is "$exprHRS" minutes.">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo $DB_SESSION "of Database sessions exist for PID="$PID1" and is less than 2 hours old. Not killing...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "For more details on this PID, run following SQL query;">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "set pages 9999 lines 150">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "select f.user_form_name, f.user_name, p.spid DB_OS_ID , s.process client_os_id,, s.audsid, f.PROCESS_SPID Forms_SPID,">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "to_char(s.logon_time,'DD-Mon-YY hh:mi:ss'), s.seconds_in_wait">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "from v\$session s , v\$process p, FND_FORM_SESSIONS_V f">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "where S.AUDSID=f.audsid and p.addr=s.paddr and s.process='"$PID1"' order by p.spid;">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
mailx -s "`hostname -a`: Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
fi
fi
else
#if PID1 and PID2 are not equal or CPU% is less than 95%.
echo "No unique CPU hogging form processes found. Exiting...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
fi
If you have the same problem with some other unix and DB processes, the script can be easily modified and used.
But use this with thorough testing first (by commenting out <kill -9 $PID1> lines.
Good luck.
Edited by: R12_AppsDBA on 19/04/2012 13:10

Thanks for sharing the script!
Hussein

Coreservicesd eating up RAM-Memory

Hello,
our Server (xserve late 2009) 10.8.4 is starting fine, but after some while, the coreservicesd RAM-usage is getting bigger and bigger...
After some Time ist has up to 9GB from 12GB total RAM...
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Hi
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Here is the message in the log at the same time syslogd runaway:
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Any suggestion to stop my Macbook pro getting so hot?
P.S. There could be similar post but the since the search is desactivated i couldn't find them

Update:
I went to the Apple Store and talked to a Genius. Long story short, I was told that they have been seeing this issue allot since the release of Leopard. A "simple" archive/install was recommended to correct the problem. No explanation. A Terminal command to kill the offending process was also not offered when I asked (nothing I have tried works via this route). Hey, Apple, are you taking note of this?!
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“Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” (Albert Einstein, 1941),
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10.6 -- All Office 2008 apps hang at splash screen. FontCache Tool runaway

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This happens after reinstalling Office.
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Ps. Your post was extremely well written and I apologize for my stream of consciousness, less than stelllar response... hope this helps if not feel free to ping me for more details on what I did...
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DavidFielder wrote:
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KIMYONG : Forms Client Runaway 발생시 조치사항

Purpose
=========
f60webmx 이 Runaway process 로 남아있을경우 불필요한 자원을 사용할수 있습니다. 이에 대한 조치사항을 기술하고자 합니다.
Cause
=======
1. Forms client process (f60webmx ) database server process 와의 socket connection 이 끊겨서 발생하수 있습니다.
2. 어떠한 database server process 도 현재의 Form Session과 연결되어 있지 않습니다.
3. 오랫동안 inactive상태로 Forms client process가 과도한 CPU를 사용하고 있습니다.
Solution
=========
Solution$ ps -ef|grep 20034
appbgd1i 20034 18920 82 09:06 ? 07:51:57 f60webmx webfile=5,85970,p11ias1_10013_PBGD1I
appbgd1i 21372 19679 0 18:38 pts/0 00:00:00 grep 20034
1)
Run strace on pid strace –p <pid>
$ strace -p 20034
Process 20034 attached - interrupt to quit
read(47, 0xaffcc2e, 2064) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(47, 0xaffcc2e, 2064) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(47, 0xaffcc2e, 2064) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(47, 0xaffcc2e, 2064) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(47, 0xaffcc2e, 2064) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(47, 0xaffcc2e, 2064) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(47, 0xaffcc2e, 2064) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
Note: Some times strace output will ECONN (Connection refused ) instead of EAGAIN ( Resource temporarily unavailable) in such situation also you can kill the process if you get output similar to above you can kill the process
$ kill -9 20034
2)
Run following sql and when asks for CleintPId give forms runaway (f60webmx process pid)
col program for a15
col machine for a15
col terminal for a15
col sid for 9999
col serial# for 9999999
col action for a40
set lines 152
select s.sid, s.serial#, '*'||s.process||'*' Client,
p.spid Server, s.sql_address, s.sql_hash_value,
s.username, s.program || s.module, s.action, s.terminal,
s.machine, s.status, s.last_call_et/3600
from v$session s, v$process p
where p.addr=s.paddr and s.sid=nvl('&sid',s.sid) and
p.spid=nvl('&spid',p.spid) and
nvl(s.process,-1) = nvl('&ClientPid',nvl(s.process,-1));
If no rows are selected it means that there is no database server process which is serving the present forms process and thus we confirm that it is a runaway.
3)
Run above SQL for forms client process (f60webmx) and check for strace on the same process and if it does not give any output follow the present procedure
Enter value for clientpid: 20034
old 19: nvl(s.process,-1) = nvl('&ClientPid',nvl(s.process,-1))
new 19: nvl(s.process,-1) = nvl('20034',nvl(s.process,-1))
SID SERIAL# CLIENT SERVER SQL_ADDR SQL_HASH_VALUE USERNAME PROG_MODULE
ACTION TERMINAL
MACHINE STATUS S.LAST_CALL_ET/3600
428 5701 *20034* 7660 62DB08BC 1053795750 APPS FNDSCSGN
PO Manager, BITL p11ias1.beltong INACTIVE 8.76166667
445 6179 *20034* 7660 00 0 APPS RCVRCVRC
FRM::PO Manager, BITL p11ias1.beltong INACTIVE 8.75722222
As per above update the forms runaway process has opened two database sessions 428 and 445. And we should always ignore the SID which has prog_module column as FNDSCSGN (here 428). Look for other sessions which are having status as INACTIVE. If they are INACTIVE for more than 8hrs (time can be conifirmed from callet/3600 column). If session is inactive for more than 8hrs , then you can kill the both sessions and and f60webmx process.
"alter system kill session ‘SID,SERIAL#’;"
We needs to check all form nodes for the following:
· Is Developer 6i at least Developer Patchset 16 (3596539)
· Set the forms applet heartBeat and FORMS60_TIMEOUT (Developer 6i) or FORMS90_TIMEOUT (Developer 9i) parameter:
1) Create an environment variable in $APPL_TOP/admin/adovars.env using autoconfig customization tags (see http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showNOT?p_id=182925.1#implement) called FORMS60_TIMEOUT (Forms 6i) or FORMS90_TIMEOUT (Forms 9i).
This parameter specifies the amount of time in elapsed minutes before the Forms Server process is terminated when there is no client communication with the Forms Server. The internal default value is 15, and valid values are integers between 1 - 1440 minutes.
Set FORMS60_TIMEOUT / FORMS90_TIMEOUT to a value of 5:
· FORMS60_TIMEOUT=5 (or FORMS90_TIMEOUT=5)
2) Set the forms applet heartBeat parameter:
In the base html file, insert a new parameter called heartBeat. This parameter sets the frequency at which a client sends a packet to the server to indicate that it is still running. The default value is two minutes. Set this parameter value to greater than the value specified for the FORMS60_TIMEOUT variable, in this case 7 minutes is recommended:
· <PARAM NAME="heartBeat" VALUE="7">
Fullfillment Runaway Processes
Reference
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After finding out that asl data was taking up an incredible amount of room on my drive, I did this. Large asl files dated back from as late as 2009. It did help clear up some of the asl data but did not stop the files from being created faster than before (and at large file sizes). I went to the console to see what was going on and I kept getting this error message:
"syslogd(19924,0xb0185000) malloc: *** mmap(size=2097152) failed (error code=12)
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Hi Marc ,
Thanks for your reply.....
Did you mentioning the script (upgrade_10131_
10133_oracle.sql) in the orabpel. I had run this script after applying the patch.
Still iam facing the same issue.
what need to be done?
Could you please help me on this, because I need to do the Fault Handling Framework in BPEL and so i need the faultpolicy folder to be present.
Since I got the folder by applying the patch, but what happend is when i try to check out for the activity status in the BPEL Console Activity tab it is showing the error as mentioned earlier. Any problem with patch implementation or any bug is there. So far i done the patch installation successfully without error and i upgraded the orabpel schema using the mentioned script also. Any other things i need to do?
Regards,
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Turn off RSS feeds.

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The migration from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2 caused enormous problems for me. After the reboot the system wouldn't stay stable for more than 5minutes. Then things would become unresponsive to the point of total system freeze. After about 6 reboots I decided to drop in the SL DVD and roll back to 10.6. All is reasonable again.
Love to find out what went wrong though. Unfortunately the system.log seems to have gotten wiped while rolling back.
I recall lots of errors from coreservicesd. There are lots of crash reports from that daemon.
Here's one:
Process: coreservicesd [279]
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonC ore.framework/Versions/A/Support/coreservicesd
Identifier: coreservicesd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2009-11-10 17:05:37.877 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x00000001020de00c
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff8441f7bb _FreeSegGetLength(void const*, unsigned int) + 15
1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff84439c10 _TableAllocBytes(void*, unsigned int, unsigned int*) + 102
2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff84439a99 CSStoreAllocBytes(_CSStore*, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int*) + 91
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff84439d6e CSStoreAllocUnitWithData + 77
4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff82921e4a _CSArraySetCapacity + 80
5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff82922d17 CSArrayCreate + 83
6 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff82922663 _LSBindableActivate + 125
7 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff8294d524 _LSRegisterTypeDeclarations(LSDatabase*, unsigned int, LSBundleData const*, __CFDictionary const*, __CFString const*, unsigned int) + 2019
8 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff8294f478 _LSServerItemInfoRegistration + 5162
9 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff82957df7 LSServerRegisterItemInfo + 128
10 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff82960af1 LSPluginServerRegisterItemInfo + 86
11 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff829594c4 _XRegisterItemInfo + 373
12 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x00007fff82958bee LSPlugin_server + 106
13 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff844a5113 scHandleMessage(machmsg_headert*, unsigned int ()(machmsg_headert, machmsg_headert*), unsigned int*, unsigned char*) + 119
14 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff844a29d8 SCServerSession::handleMessage(machmsg_headert*) + 370
15 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff844a1bfc serverCallback(_CFMachPort*, void*, long, void*) + 342
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8248ff7e __CFMachPortPerform + 366
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82468551 __CFRunLoopRun + 5201
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82466c2f CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff824669b6 CFRunLoopRun + 70
20 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff844a1972 _CoreServicesServerMain + 522
21 coreservicesd 0x0000000100000eac 0x100000000 + 3756
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876bcbba kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876bea85 dispatch_mgrinvoke + 154
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876be75c dispatch_queueinvoke + 185
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876be286 dispatch_workerthread2 + 244
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876bdbb8 pthreadwqthread + 353
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876bda55 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876de9ee _semwaitsignal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876e27f1 pthread_condwait + 1286
2 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff8445623f fmodWatchConsumer + 347
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876dcf8e pthreadstart + 331
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876dce41 thread_start + 13
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876ae426 read + 10
1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x00007fff84456f08 fmodWatchProducer + 140
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876dcf8e pthreadstart + 331
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876dce41 thread_start + 13
Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876bd9da _workqkernreturn + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876bddec pthreadwqthread + 917
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876bda55 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x000000000058000c rbx: 0x00000001020de00c rcx: 0x00007fff5fbfc4f0 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
rdi: 0x0000000101b5e000 rsi: 0x000000000058000c rbp: 0x00007fff5fbfc540 rsp: 0x00007fff5fbfc530
r8: 0x00007fff70e4d908 r9: 0x0000000000000073 r10: 0x00007fff5fbfc4f0 r11: 0x0000000000000246
r12: 0x0000000101b5e000 r13: 0x000000000032fee4 r14: 0x0000000000000008 r15: 0x000000000032fee4
rip: 0x00007fff8441f7bb rfl: 0x0000000000010206 cr2: 0x00000001020de00c
Binary Images:
0x100000000 - 0x100000fff coreservicesd ??? (???) <D804E55B-4376-998C-AA25-2ADBFDD24414> /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd
0x7fff5fc00000 - 0x7fff5fc3bdef dyld 132.1 (???) <B633F790-4DDB-53CD-7ACF-2A3682BCEA9F> /usr/lib/dyld
0x7fff813e2000 - 0x7fff81498fff libobjc.A.dylib ??? (???) <F206BE6D-8777-AE6C-B367-7BEA76C14241> /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
0x7fff81499000 - 0x7fff81657fff libicucore.A.dylib ??? (???) <5BD16988-545F-6A8C-9A6F-FB18ACDCAEC2> /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
0x7fff81f64000 - 0x7fff81f64ff7 com.apple.CoreServices 44 (44) <210A4C56-BECB-E3E4-B6EE-7EC53E02265D> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices
0x7fff823b8000 - 0x7fff823bcff7 libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) <95718673-FEEE-B6ED-B127-BCDBDB60D4E5> /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x7fff8241c000 - 0x7fff8258fff7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.6.1 (550.13) <1E952BD9-37C6-16BE-B2F0-CD92A6283D37> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x7fff828ef000 - 0x7fff8298ffff com.apple.LaunchServices 362 (362) <CCBFC037-7162-E392-B11F-90098891AE20> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchS ervices.framework/Versions/A/LaunchServices
0x7fff839e4000 - 0x7fff839f2ff7 libkxld.dylib ??? (???) <568C35E7-B101-3F1E-0361-3E1E9F15C90B> /usr/lib/system/libkxld.dylib
0x7fff83ad4000 - 0x7fff83b8dfff libsqlite3.dylib ??? (???) <5A15E12A-AE8F-1A36-BBC7-564E7D7AD0FB> /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib
0x7fff83e05000 - 0x7fff83e46ff7 com.apple.SystemConfiguration 1.10.1 (1.10.1) <FFCA91A7-ADDB-E3D0-234A-47609BC37556> /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfi guration
0x7fff843f2000 - 0x7fff84724fef com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 861.2 (861.2) <39F3B259-AC2A-792B-ECFE-4F3E72F2D1A5> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonC ore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore
0x7fff84a21000 - 0x7fff84a32fef libz.1.dylib ??? (???) <3A7A4C48-A4C8-A78A-8B87-C0DDF6601AC8> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
0x7fff854e4000 - 0x7fff855b0fff com.apple.CFNetwork 454.5 (454.5) <319C7138-2839-DA5E-413A-618248BD4A32> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFNetwo rk.framework/Versions/A/CFNetwork
0x7fff85644000 - 0x7fff8575bfef libxml2.2.dylib ??? (???) <EE067D7E-15B3-F043-6FBD-10BA31FE76C7> /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
0x7fff85b26000 - 0x7fff85b3cfef libbsm.0.dylib ??? (???) <42D3023A-A1F7-4121-6417-FCC6B51B3E90> /usr/lib/libbsm.0.dylib
0x7fff85c7f000 - 0x7fff85cbaff7 com.apple.AE 496.1 (496.1) <27D2D2E9-B309-7E65-8C3F-7FF01148F0DE> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/AE.fram ework/Versions/A/AE
0x7fff85ce5000 - 0x7fff85d31fff libauto.dylib ??? (???) <072804DF-36AD-2DBE-7EF8-639CFB79077F> /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x7fff85db0000 - 0x7fff85e2dfef libstdc++.6.dylib ??? (???) <35ECA411-2C08-FD7D-11B1-1B7A04921A5C> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
0x7fff87057000 - 0x7fff8707ffff com.apple.DictionaryServices 1.1.1 (1.1.1) <9FD709FC-23F0-F270-EAC1-C590CD516A36> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Diction aryServices.framework/Versions/A/DictionaryServices
0x7fff87080000 - 0x7fff87086ff7 com.apple.DiskArbitration 2.3 (2.3) <857F6E43-1EF4-7D53-351B-10DE0A8F992A> /System/Library/Frameworks/DiskArbitration.framework/Versions/A/DiskArbitration
0x7fff8750a000 - 0x7fff87535ff7 libxslt.1.dylib ??? (???) <87A0B228-B24A-C426-C3FB-B40D7258DD49> /usr/lib/libxslt.1.dylib
0x7fff876a3000 - 0x7fff87861ff7 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <526DD3E5-2A8B-4512-ED97-01B832369959> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x7fff87862000 - 0x7fff878f2fff com.apple.SearchKit 1.3.0 (1.3.0) <4175DC31-1506-228A-08FD-C704AC9DF642> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SearchK it.framework/Versions/A/SearchKit
0x7fff878f3000 - 0x7fff8793dff7 com.apple.Metadata 10.6.2 (507.4) <A28A5E0C-DCDC-A5CE-4EB7-39752E63956A> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Metadata
0x7fff87962000 - 0x7fff87be7ff7 com.apple.security 6.0 (36910) <67DF686D-B991-D0D6-20B6-9EA668018466> /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
0x7fff87f83000 - 0x7fff87fe0fef com.apple.framework.IOKit 2.0 (???) <EBBEED67-D5BE-5F7F-96F4-9023BBA1B913> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
0x7fff88723000 - 0x7fff88732fff com.apple.NetFS 3.2.1 (3.2.1) <FF21DB1E-F425-1005-FB70-BC19CAF4006E> /System/Library/Frameworks/NetFS.framework/Versions/A/NetFS
0x7fff887b1000 - 0x7fff8886dff7 com.apple.CoreServices.OSServices 352 (352) <CD933BBD-B260-552F-E64E-291D6ED3091A> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/OSServi ces.framework/Versions/A/OSServices
0x7fffffe00000 - 0x7fffffe01fff libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <526DD3E5-2A8B-4512-ED97-01B832369959> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

After rolling back to 10.6 earlier this week, I re-installed 10.6.1 a few days later and this morning I re-upgraded to 10.6.2. This time the above problem didn't occur.

Fix for 10.5.6 and coreservicesd crashing after update

Both MBP C2D2006 and MacBook Air early 2008 worked fine with the 10.5.6 update so I decided to try it on my PPC. Perfectly happy 10.5.5 PowerMac G5 then the dreaded 10.5.6 update dec 27. Would have thought everything was sorted out. I go to software update and installed it. Everything looked fine until I logged in... nothing responded, I thought my account was hosed so I tried another, it worked for a little while. I kept trying to see what can fix it so I download the combo updater, after reading it can help. After successful combo updater, same thing. I look around and all I can do is ssh in after its booted. It turns out coreservicesd is responsible. I try a couple of things I found here in the discussions none worked. Just for the **** of it I completely removed /Library/Caches and boom its perfectly normal again. Thank god for that I would hate to restore my from a backup and start again.

Thank you so much for this post. I was having this exact issue: 10.5.6 update, coreservicesd crashing (because it was saying it was version 0). I tried the combo update because that has helped stuff in the past, with no luck. Again thank you, I couldn't find any other info out there and I really did not want to reinstall.

Isolating and Killing Runaway Processes

How does one go about isolating and kiling a runaway PL/SQL process? I decided that it would be fun to call a
procedure within a package that had an improperly coded loop, coded by yours truly. I called they package and
then noticed that it seemed to be taking too long. Upon reviewing the code, I noticed that I my program was
now stuck in an infinite loop. Since this process had run off on its own, I tried to complie it to fix the problem and
much to my dismay I could not even complie the code, even though I was able to read the source to my screen.
Where can one look to gleen some information as to how to kill the instance of the demon child without having to do
what my DBA did and restart out database instance? Any v$ views etc?

If you are in sqlplus when it locks up, you can simply enter <control> c
that should kill the process. If you close your sqlplus session in any other way than standard exit procedures, depending on your setup, you either wait for pmon to find the defunct process or the administrator has to kill it for you.

Coreservicesd 100% cpu on 10.6 and quicksilver

I've been suffering from teh 100% coreservicesd race condition for a while. I've searched around for a long time before finding a discussion thread that hinted at the issue I'm having - quicksilver.
The problem was with the 'Dock' being in one of the 'Catalogue' items.
1. right click on quicksilver menu icon
2. select 'Catalog'
3. select 'User'
4. uncheck 'Dock'
As soon as I did this, coreservicesd cpu usage immediately dropped.

TBauer, I had the same problem with 10.6.8 using 100% of the CPU with Parallels 6 installed. The following steps solved this problem for me:
0. Take a screen shot of your Dock if you wish to remember it as currently set
1. Launch Activity Monitor and click on the CPU column so you can see Dock using the CPU
2. Move ///Users/ ... /Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist to the trash
3. Click on Dock and click on Quit Process to stop the Dock
OS X will then rebuild the default Dock
4. Put the items back in the Dock that you want
That solved the problem for me yesterday morning. I've launched Parallels 6 several times now and moved the machine from my work network to home and the 100% CPU problem hasn't returned.
Hope that works for you, too!
I don't think using the combo updater will solve the problem. The problem appears to be a .plist that is generated with OS X 10.6.7 and earlier that contains icons of a larger than Apple documented size causes the CPU looping. Rebuilding the dock.plist under OS X 10.6.8 appears to solve the problem.
Parallels has issued a knowledge bulletin saying they are looking into the problem. On their web site they have another approach involving moving the offending icon out of the dock to solve the problem. I like my solution better but theirs works, too.

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