BIT-101 [2003-2017]

Another one related to component creation, but a question this time…

Does your syslogd sometimes go out of control? Whenever I save the Component Definition dialog, export a SWC, Convert to Compiled Clip, or Save the file I’m creating my components in, my CPU pretty much maxes out. Activity Monitor shows the process syslogd is raging out of control. I know Flash is logging some crazy amount of data. A look in the logs shows it’s logging thousands of lines of this crap:

[xml]Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : function toPrecision(p:Object,)
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : addFunction
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : metadata name = __go_to_definition_help
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: file = C:\src\player\FlashPlayer\avmplus\core\Number.as
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: pos = 4823
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: int
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : returnType = int
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : function valueOf()
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : addFunction
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : metadata name = __go_to_definition_help
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: file = C:\src\player\FlashPlayer\avmplus\core\Number.as
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: pos = 5811
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: String
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : returnType = String
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: Object
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : phas a Number default value = 0.0
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : function toFixed(p:Object,)
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : addFunction
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : metadata name = __go_to_definition_help
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: file = C:\src\player\FlashPlayer\avmplus\core\Number.as
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: pos = 5407
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: String
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : returnType = String
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: Object
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : phas a Number default value = 0.0
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : function toExponential(p:Object,)
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : addFunction
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : metadata name = __go_to_definition_help
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: file = C:\src\player\FlashPlayer\avmplus\core\Number.as
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: pos = 4729
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: String
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : returnType = String
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: Object
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : radixhas a Number default value = 10.0
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : function toString(radix:Object,)
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : addFunction
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : got type name: Object
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : valuehas a Number default value = 0.0
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : function int(value:Object,)
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : addVariable
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : metadata name = __go_to_definition_help
Mon Apr 14 16:02:31 Lebowski [0x0-0x4bd4bd].com.adobe.flash-9.0-en_us[24983] : Key Value Pair: file = C:\src\player\FlashPlayer\avmplus\core\Number.as
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(Lebowski is the name of my computer 🙂 )

Note the timestamp. Actually that’s a small fraction of what gets logged per second. And it goes on indefinitely until I force quite the process, which I am now doing dozens of times per day.

Anyone have any idea why it’s doing this, or how to make it stop?