I'm guessing everyone having this problem upgraded to Leopard. At least in my case, Time Machine was the culprit. It was running my battery down like crazy on my macbook pro.
Case: syslogd runs out of control; killing the process doesn't stop it because the process reinitiates and picks up right where it left off. The cause is Time Machine doing some sort of logging in prepartion for a backup
Fix:
1) > System Preferences... > Time Machine: Set switch to 'OFF,' Close Sys Prefs.
2) Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor: select 'syslogd' and click 'Quit Process.' You will have to authenticate.
At this point the process should reinitiate, but CPU/RAM usage should be next to nothing.
Message was edited by: George Stamton
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