Comments on: Disabling spindump on OSX to prevent slowdown after a crash

By: Tim Kelly

Tim Kelly — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:33:08 +0000

Thanks. I like to suspend some of my applications when I’m running my laptop on battery power, and spindump would kick in and drain the battery – I’d suspend an app using 3% CPU and find spindump kicked in at 15 or even 20% of CPU. This script has prevented that from occurring.

By: eloy

eloy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:15:28 +0000

Hi guys

I m trying to run the scripts on script editor but i always get the inspiring message “Expected expression but found end of line.

I understand next to nothing about programming so…

Any help, please?

thanx

By: Philip (flip) Kromer

Philip (flip) Kromer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:59:01 +0000

Stop launchctl from loading it in the first place:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist

the ‘-w’ makes the change persistent.

By: Hans Douma

Hans Douma — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:11:21 +0000

Hi,

Totally agree Spindump is a pita. There should be an option in System Preferences to disable spindump alltogether.
Don’t know much about Unix so can someone please explain where I would have to put the lines of code, mentioned at the beginning of this article and how this script should be called (I suppose Spindump, but does it need some kind of suffix like in Windows ?)

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
sleep 60000
done

Thanks for the help

By: Dan Pickett

Dan Pickett — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:11:00 +0000

This was driving me freakin nuts! Thanks so much.

By: noola

noola — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:37:12 +0000

Thank you, now i know what spindump is, and i dont need it anymore :-)

By: matthew.kurowski.org | OSX Spindump

matthew.kurowski.org | OSX Spindump — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:08:07 +0000

[...] to Alex (a commenter at skwpspace) for this little tidbit for effectively disabling spindump on OSX. sudo -i cd /usr/sbin/ mv [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:19:24 +0000

Heh, I just did the following:

sudo -i
cd /usr/sbin/
mv spindump spindump-backup
ln -s /usr/bin/true /usr/sbin/spindump

Problem solved!

By: Saniya

Saniya — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:02:57 +0000

Excellent – thanks! Personally, I like the extra degree of continuity better

than I like looking like another Yahoo customer.

By: shadow

shadow — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:05:25 +0000

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist