(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)
Hi,
The BESAgent appears to be scanning the /Applications folder on Mac OS X nonstop.
Is this the default behaviour of the client agent or is there some fixlet/task running that causes it to do that?
I ran “fs_usage -f filesys BESAgent” and see a never ending stream of pread/open/getattrlist again anything inside my /Applications folder.
As some applications contain folders with many other files (e.g. Eclipse, Microsoft Office, MAMP etc) the scanning process takes some time. It then repeats, thus there is always a scan happening.
This continuous access of my local disk is undesirable.
Would appreciate any guidance on whether this is normal behaviour for the agent or whether it is a configuration.
Is there also a way to tell the agent to not scan subdirectories in the Applications folder? Or at least don’t bother with none .app files? At the moment every file is touched.
Tony