I have a process named tic
that occasionally shows its ugly face in htop
or Activity Monitor, consuming around 100% CPU. I couldn't find any good info on it last time I tried. What is it for, what would make it suck up my processor cycles, and what can be done about it.
I'm on the latest sub-version of Mojave: 10.14.3 (18D42).
Update: this happened again, and about 80% of the lines displayed by sudo lsof -p PID
were related in some way to Visual Studio Code. I don't know if that's a useful clue for anyone about the cause… but I'll put it out there…
Best Answer
man tic
says:You can use it to enable features in you terminal (like italics) that Apple didn't include in the terminfo database. See: How to show italic in vim in iTerm2
tic
is a one-shot program and should not run in the background.Open Activity Monitor, select
tic
& do ⌘-I, the first line says Parent proces: followed by a (blue) name which is a link. This tells you what launchedtic
, you can click that link to dive deeper in the launchers (Parent Proces) until you end up onkernel_task
.If the Parent process says
launchd
you may have an entry in eitherHere there live .plist files which control the running of background processes.
You can use LaunchControl to see all such daemons or agents.