Nerviger Prozess (DLmpd)

[J_Motion_Graphics]

Hallo,

seit heute nervt mich ein Prozess, namens "DLmpd"! Ich weiß nicht, ob ich ihn vielleicht schon länger habe; jedenfalls ist er mir heute das erste Mal aufgefallen. Als ich bei mir auf dem Mac in der Aktivitätsanzeige nachgesehen habe, warum mein Mac so unglaublich langsam lief, musste ich voller Schrecken feststellen, dass dort ein Prozess war, der zwischendurch bis zu 300% CPU einnahm. Und ich hatte gerade kein Programm (bis auf den Finder und die Aktivitätsanzeige) geöffnet.

Hier zwei Screenshots (während er "nur" 100% CPU-Auslastung hatte):

 

[d4y]

AW: Nerviger Prozess (DLmpd)

Hab das im Internet gefunden

http://ask.metafilter.com/144123/help-me-ID-runaway-DLmpd-process-in-OSX

help me ID runaway "DLmpd" process in OSX?
January 25, 2010 12:32 PM Subscribe

help me ID runaway "DLmpd" process in OSX?


does anybody know what the process "DLmpd" is for in OSX? i am running the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.2) and this morning Apple rolled out a security update. I let it install and upon reboot my CPU usage spiked to 100%. there was a process called "DLmpd" causing it.

i tried killing it but it kept relaunching. after restarting again it seemed to stop hogging CPU resources, but it still sits there.

after extensive Google/Yahoo searching i found NO meaningful references to it. this leads me to believe one of the following is happening:

1. it is a very new process introduced by Apple..maybe even a virus scanner of some type and it was indexing/scanning my machine upon first run. this newness could be why i can't find it on the web.

2. it is a trojan or virus that is likewise new. this obviously scares the crap out of me.

does anybody out there have any info on this mysterious process?

thanks

k
posted by monkeybutt to computers & internet (7 answers total)

Looks like it could be associated with Autodesk [pdf]
posted by sanko at 12:51 PM on January 25, 2010


I'm at work and my Mac's at home, but lsof |grep DLmpd might give you some useful info.
posted by paulg at 12:55 PM on January 25, 2010


yes, i considered that. "DL" is their old designation for "Discreet Logic" systems products. and actually have a demo of their latest Smoke-on-OSX offering, so it is entirely possible. however i could not confirm it from the PDFs i found. i will have to ping our reseller support.
posted by monkeybutt at 12:56 PM on January 25, 2010


@paulg: good idea!

lsof |grep DLmpd returns nothing, but.... ps -ef|grep DL returns this:

0 1016 1 0 0:00.89 ?? 0:01.24 /usr/discreet/lib64/DLmpd

so SANKO was right...it is Autodesk/discreet based!
posted by monkeybutt at 1:01 PM on January 25, 2010


discreet reseller just came thru with this:

Yes this is a ****** running that smoke uses for stone and wire.

so i'm assuming it was trying perhaps to index media on my machine or something. now i'm trying to figure out how to kill it for good.

thanks to everyone for their help.
posted by monkeybutt at 1:03 PM on January 25, 2010

 

[J_Motion_Graphics]

AW: Nerviger Prozess (DLmpd)

Ok, danke. Ich hatte auch mal Smoke, aber eigentlich dachte ich, dass ich bereits alles gelöscht hätte...