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theramajor

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 17, 2019
54
2
Wisconsin
The fans on my MPB were spooling up pretty fast so I checked Activity Monitor to see what's going on. I noticed something called 'deleted.' This is what I found:


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cwd
/
txt
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CacheDelete.framework/deleted
txt
/Library/Preferences/Logging/.plist-cache.r8vMFLPr
txt
/private/var/db/analyticsd/events.whitelist
txt
/usr/share/icu/icudt64l.dat
txt
/System/Library/MessageTracer/SubmitDiagInfo.default.domains.searchtree
txt
/usr/lib/dyld
0
/dev/null
1
/dev/null
2
/dev/null
3
/System/Library/MessageTracer/SubmitDiagInfo.default.domains.searchtree
 

2984839

Cancelled
Apr 19, 2014
2,114
2,241
That's a built-in utility to purge disk caches and nothing to worry about. In the BSD tradition which Apple follows, daemons are processes that run continuously in the background, and their names end with a 'd'. "launchd" is a good example. Thus "deleted" is not the past tense of the English word delete; it's a daemon that performs deletion. It makes more sense if you mentally pronounce it "delete dee". Confusing naming on Apple's part and they should have picked a different term for this daemon.
 

jtstarr

macrumors newbie
Nov 24, 2020
1
0
I just did a search of the process group "com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice (42147)" which brought me to this forum page. I noticed the same high spinup of my MBP fans that theramajor described. Fans spun very fast, but no warm air out the vents; laptop bottom not hot to the touch in the slightest.

Where theramajor had "deleted", I have the aforementioned process group. In my CPU activity monitor, it shows not responding and continues hangup count. We both show the same .dat file, but different associated processes; and different folders: /private/var/db/analyticsd/ vs. /private/var/db/timezone/. Does that seem right? Should I just reboot? I expect it won't occur again....not right away. Suggestions?

cwd
/
txt
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIServices.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice
txt
/Library/Preferences/Logging/.plist-cache.jT0Zk1Mu
txt
/private/var/db/timezone/tz/2020d.1.0/icutz/icutz44l.dat
txt
/usr/share/icu/icudt64l.dat
txt
/private/var/folders/89/b7ml1pc11lj45w7l66vr8c500000gn/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv/com.apple.LaunchServices-1082-v2.csstore
txt
/usr/lib/dyld
0
/dev/null
1
/dev/null
2
/dev/null
 
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tim_fully

macrumors newbie
Apr 7, 2022
1
0
Sydney, New South Wales
Yeh something not right about this....

cwd
/
txt
/usr/libexec/nsurlsessiond
txt
/Library/Preferences/Logging/.plist-cache.gZicKclg
txt
/usr/share/icu/icudt64l.dat
txt
/private/var/db/analyticsd/events.whitelist
txt
/private/var/db/mds/messages/501/se_SecurityMessages
txt
/usr/lib/dyld
0
/dev/null
1
/dev/null
2
/dev/null
 
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