Comments on: List of Mac OSX Common processes

By: Randall Blanchard

Randall Blanchard — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:21:06 +0000

What about the process “warmd” ???

By: George

George — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:52:00 +0000

silkythreads, pasteboard services means cut, copy & paste. It’s run once for every user that’s logged in, because it’s the process that holds whatever is on your clipboard & lets applications get hold of it.

By: ciefish

ciefish — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:28:20 +0000

webmaster as of 030511 your formatting looks a little off for the lsd/Little Snitch Daemon listing. BTW, thanks for this resource I’m a noob to mac and I found it very useful ;o)./cie

By: silkythreads

silkythreads — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:56:45 +0000

pboard
Pasteboard Server ?

Provides pasteboard (caching) services.

What would prompt this to run and why?

This definition is useless.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:06:38 +0000

someone

By: JKI

JKI — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:52:15 +0000

Somehow similar site with a bit more processes and links is this: http://triviaware.com/macprocess/all

By: M

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:34:53 +0000

Some more processes that have been occuring in my Activity Monitor:

SyncServer

Sandbox-compiler (appears just briefly, never seen before.)

Quick Look Server

DashboardClient

…

(Recently I was watching a web video
-> FireFox crashed
-> Excel crashed
-> Process ID numbers went up to 30000. (Usually less than 1000)
-> Kernel_task had 49 threads, usually ALWAYS 48, never mind what software I am running.

I am truly wondering about malware possibilty in my computer, altough this is probably not the correct forum to discuss that in depth.)

By: Justin Williams

Justin Williams — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:58:58 +0000

I’d be interested in learning what synchronize-pref is for. We’re trying to investigate it, but there doesn’t seem to be any info online about it.

By: joshmax

joshmax — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:24:20 +0000

Definitely possible, I have seen that with other Apple technologies as well.

By: M

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:36:07 +0000

Thanks a lot, Joshmax! Nowhere else have I been able to get this question answered. There is no other reference to this process within the reach of Google search, and even in the Apple discussions site someone else is asking about SFLSharedPrefsTo to no avail.

Much appreciated!

Furthermore: do You (or someone else) know wheter it is normal / legitimate that this process is running even though I do not have a .Mac account? Thanks!