> On Sep 18, 2016, at 18:10, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday September 18 2016 17:24:55 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: > >> That all looks as expected for someone on OS X 10.9. launchd2 in 10.10+ did >> away with per-user launchd. All domains are managed by the same process. > > Still, why would a background user without even an interactive shell be > running an IconServicesAgent? >> >> That's pretty large. I'm a bit surprised by that. >> >> My macports user's disk usage is about 90 MB, mostly for its pch cache. > > That fits with the size I'm seeing for root and _securityagent. 900Mb is > about what I see for users who have logged in at some point. > >>> Is it possible to create users with UID<500 despite those numbers being >>> "reserved by Apple"? >> >> Yes, of course it's possible. Don't. There's nothing special about the UID >> in this case that has anything to do with what you're seeing. > > So what does make the difference?
What is "the difference" that you want? All users have a user session, and if logged in to the gui, they also have an aqua (gui) session. All users. > > >>> %> sudo afsctool -cfvv -8 -J4 /var/folders/*/*/C/com.apple.IconServices >> >> What is -J4? I don't see that option mentioned, and afsctool seems to bawk >> at it. > > That's an option from my parallel version: > https://github.com/RJVB/afsctool > > I think I'll have to set up a cron task or similar that runs the afsctool > command with an appropriate frequency. Since the run from this morning only > my own icon cache has increased to about 250Mb; still 1/4 or what it was > before compressing. > >> On Sunday September 18 2016 20:42:53 Brandon Allbery wrote: >>>> Some port somewhere likely builds the icon cache while building or >>>> "installing" (destrooting) since it "knows" that it would only be built >>>> by >>>> the person intending to use it and that nobody uses packaging on OS X. >>>> :/ >>> >>> ...or maybe some tool invoked during build. The former could be mitigated; >>> the latter may be harder. > > Possibly a tool, but what could have that effect? AFAIK the icon cache is > chiefly used by the Finder, so anything that leverages the Finder might cause > an icon cache to be populated. It's marked as RunAtLoad on my system (Sierra). That would explain why it's running, even if nothing needs it... > But come to think of it that cannot be my case; the non-privileged build > phases are run under my own ID on my system. > > I'm calling it a night for now ... > > R. > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
