Hello.

Thank you to you both for your comments.

Eric : I am running on OSX 10.9.2.   I don’t know what to answer about the 
deamons.  I have not done anything with that.

Chris : I have seen this post.  Thus my comment about the temporary folders.  I 
have rebooted without deleting any folder and it changes nothing.  I must, I’m 
afraid, admit I have never worked much with the Console application.  I know 
it’s for viewing logs, but I can’t navigate it very well.  I will try, but if 
you could spare a few moments more to nudge me in the right direction, it would 
be appreciated.  I would be happy to try and delete or create the appropriate 
folders.

I had gathered as well that it was a OSX problem more than a Macports one, but 
did not know where to get help.   Don’t know if it makes any sense, but the 
first time I ran into the problem (OSX version 10.9.1), the IconServicesAgent 
would launch after a selfupdate.  I think it might be because after the rsync, 
OSX wants to update the icon for every file in the tree.   I might make no 
sense at all.  Just a thought.

Anyhow, thanks again to you both.

Ghyslain



On Mar 5, 2014, at 10:52, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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