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.
9 Comments
Mufon · March 8, 2012 at 8:56 pm
thank you
Omakayd · March 17, 2012 at 9:43 pm
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.
Kirill Stytsenko · July 8, 2012 at 8:05 pm
thanks! helped me, same as it helped the other users. :)
Laucha · September 25, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Great tip! same as the others, this process just take a lot of resources without any cause or reason (at sight…). Many thanks!
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Devin · July 27, 2014 at 9:19 pm
thank you!!! whenever i go into activity moniter it always says report crash is taking up lots of cpu and this fixes my problem
Jason Potvin · May 29, 2015 at 11:30 am
would I type this into terminal? I am sorry I am not a programmer.
jonathan · May 29, 2015 at 7:38 pm
Hi Jason
yeah, type it into terminal :)
Dom Millar · November 1, 2015 at 5:28 pm
This is an excellent fix. Has stopped my MacBook from constantly overheating. Thanks so much.
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