Disable reportcrash osx. This post will show you how to disable the dialog box that appears when a program crashes in osx. Doing this will stop your system crawling when something crashes!
How to disable reportcrash osx
launchtl can disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist
To re-enable crash reporting:
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist
ReportCrash has a man page built in to your mac. You can get lots of information from the man page.
- open spotlight – cmd + space,
- type terminal, press enter,
- then type in ‘man ReportCrash’ – its case-sensitive
Sources: Man page for ReportCrash
ReportCrash analyzes crashing processes and saves a crash report to disk. A crash report contains information that can help a developer diagnose the cause of a crash. ReportCrash also records the identity of the crashing process and the location of the saved crash report in the system.log and the ASL log database.
thank you
I’ve recently been having problems with “reportcrash” taking up a lot of resources, even when an app hasn’t crashed. This has stopped that from happening.
Thank you.
thanks! helped me, same as it helped the other users. :)
Great tip! same as the others, this process just take a lot of resources without any cause or reason (at sight…). Many thanks!
Amazing stuff!
Saved me a lot of hassle.
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thank you!!! whenever i go into activity moniter it always says report crash is taking up lots of cpu and this fixes my problem
would I type this into terminal? I am sorry I am not a programmer.
Hi Jason
yeah, type it into terminal :)
This is an excellent fix. Has stopped my MacBook from constantly overheating. Thanks so much.