My activity monitor is showing me a nameless process ("Process Name" column in activity monitor is blank) – which seems to keep spawning new, extremely short lived, nameless processes
Neither top
nor ps -fu
seem to list the process.
kill -9 <process id>
tells me there's no such process id.
Yet I keep seeing the process in activity monitor, it keeps spawning short lived children there, and the thrashing of my CPU seems to have led to my (otherwise idle) laptop to start up its fans.
Suggestions/ideas?
Best Answer
Things to try:
cat /var/log/system.log
or start this command and check what is being logged:tail -f /var/log/system.log
(Ctrl+C to stop)