MacOS – wpsd crashes on Yosemite

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I have noticed multiple crashes in my logs of a process called wpsd. I am running OS X Yosemite v10.10.2 on a MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I could not find what this process is used for. Anyone has a clue?

Process:               wpsd [12844]
Path:                  /usr/local/bin/wpsd
Identifier:            wpsd
Version:               ???
Code Type:             X86 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
Responsible:           wpsd [12844]
User ID:               0

Best Answer

Since wpsd and /usr/local/bin do not ship with OS X out of the box, you'd need to look at the creation date of the file and or check your backups to determine when the file arrived.

You could run the strings command against the file and see if that sheds any light on the process, but we might need to know more about how you install open source tools and/or add software to the system (or look at the whole dump) to know what the tool does.

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