I’ve discovered on my macOS that may’t launch new processes as a result of I’ve too many. The wrongdoer is that now and again a few new course of system_profiler is spawned, and no concept the place it comes from and why. I feel it spawns so many processes till it no extra are allowed:
% ps aux | grep system_profiler | wc -l
1105
The method is like this:
me 52391 0.0 0.0 410660880 1584 ?? S 7:34PM 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
Any concept tips on how to repair it? Appears associated to bluetooth.
Replace 1:
This are some logs:
% log present --predicate 'processImagePath accommodates "system_profiler"' --last 1h
Filtering the log information utilizing "processImagePath CONTAINS "system_profiler""
Skipping information and debug messages, cross --info and/or --debug to incorporate.
Timestamp Thread Sort Exercise PID TTL
2025-03-25 10:09:41.165290+0100 0x7cf695 Exercise 0xc2ebb0 15058 0 system_profiler: (libsystem_info.dylib) Retrieve Person by ID
2025-03-25 10:09:41.187477+0100 0x7cf695 Default 0x0 15058 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x600001280000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.daemon
2025-03-25 10:09:41.187575+0100 0x7cf696 Default 0x0 15058 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000012800f0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.agent
2025-03-25 10:09:41.191331+0100 0x7cf695 Default 0x0 15058 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000012801e0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.distributed_notifications@Uv3
2025-03-25 10:09:41.222354+0100 0x7cf699 Exercise 0xc2ebc0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libsystem_info.dylib) Retrieve Person by ID
2025-03-25 10:09:41.223172+0100 0x7cf699 Default 0x0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x600003448000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.daemon
2025-03-25 10:09:41.223219+0100 0x7cf69a Default 0x0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x600003444000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.agent
2025-03-25 10:09:41.224166+0100 0x7cf699 Default 0x0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000034440f0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.distributed_notifications@Uv3
2025-03-25 10:09:41.544115+0100 0x7cf69b Default 0x0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x600003440000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.bluetooth.xpc
2025-03-25 10:09:41.548419+0100 0x7cf69b Default 0x0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x600003440000] invalidated as a result of the present course of cancelled the connection by calling xpc_connection_cancel()
2025-03-25 10:09:41.556469+0100 0x7cf69b Default 0x0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000034480f0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.bluetooth.xpc
2025-03-25 10:09:41.557173+0100 0x7cf69b Default 0x0 15059 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000034480f0] invalidated as a result of the present course of cancelled the connection by calling xpc_connection_cancel()
2025-03-25 10:10:42.388338+0100 0x7cfcea Exercise 0xc2fd00 15126 0 system_profiler: (libsystem_info.dylib) Retrieve Person by ID
2025-03-25 10:10:42.394131+0100 0x7cfcea Default 0x0 15126 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000004a0000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.daemon
2025-03-25 10:10:42.394254+0100 0x7cfceb Default 0x0 15126 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000004a00f0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.agent
2025-03-25 10:10:42.396482+0100 0x7cfcea Default 0x0 15126 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x6000004a8000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.distributed_notifications@Uv3
2025-03-25 10:10:42.411696+0100 0x7cfcef Exercise 0xc2fd20 15127 0 system_profiler: (libsystem_info.dylib) Retrieve Person by ID
2025-03-25 10:10:42.412252+0100 0x7cfcef Default 0x0 15127 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x60000037c000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.daemon
2025-03-25 10:10:42.412293+0100 0x7cfcf0 Default 0x0 15127 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x60000037c0f0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.cfprefsd.agent
2025-03-25 10:10:42.413316+0100 0x7cfcef Default 0x0 15127 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x60000037c1e0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.distributed_notifications@Uv3
2025-03-25 10:10:42.489235+0100 0x7cfcf0 Default 0x0 15127 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x60000037c2d0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.bluetooth.xpc
2025-03-25 10:10:42.491804+0100 0x7cfcf0 Default 0x0 15127 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x60000037c2d0] invalidated as a result of the present course of cancelled the connection by calling xpc_connection_cancel()
2025-03-25 10:10:42.492253+0100 0x7cfcf0 Default 0x0 15127 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x60000037c2d0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false title=com.apple.bluetooth.xpc
2025-03-25 10:10:42.493836+0100 0x7cfcf0 Default 0x0 15127 0 system_profiler: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x60000037c2d0] invalidated as a result of the present course of cancelled the connection by calling xpc_connection_cancel()
% ps -o pid,ppid,command -ax | grep system_profiler
16629 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16663 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16696 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16731 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16768 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16801 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16839 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16875 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16909 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16948 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
16983 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17018 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17051 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17087 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17123 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17157 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17192 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17225 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17258 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17306 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17341 825 /usr/sbin/system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType -json
17884 6489 grep system_profiler
% ps -fp 825
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
501 825 1 0 Fri04PM ?? 44:18.49 /Customers/me/Library/Software Help/iStat Menus 7/iStat Menus Menubar.app/Contents/MacOS/iStat Menus Menubar
Appears just like the wrongdoer is iStat Menus 7.1 (2250).
