What is com.apple.IconServicesAgent?

I do not have DropBox installed nor have I used the web version since upgrading to Mavericks.

@paulrudy: That was it! When I arrived at work today IconServicesAgent was consuming 226% CPU. After creating that folder, it dropped to 0.2% after a couple of seconds. Thank you!

Yep - fixed mine too. Yay you.

Yes - this fixed my problem as well. I find this issue occuring almost every day.

I have the same problem over and over again.

Mainly using

mkdir ${TMPDIR}/com.apple.IconServices

which works for some time but evenutally the process goes rogoue again. Apple please fix this!

Sad to say, this speeded up my Mac for exactly one day.

Yes, this happens in my Dropbox directory.

Thank you so much - MPlayerX (not the Mac App Store download, but from the Homepage) caused the problem, it was stuck in an infinite loop. Uninstalling MPlayerX solved the problem immediately.

This immediately solved the problem. Thanks to google, the forums and Kieran Healy for this fix.

I just discovered this problem with my new Mac Pro. It isn't using any real CPU but the ram usage ballooned to over 10GB (32GB installed). Immediately after a restart it's hovering around 100MB.

@Magnat Thanks....Is this AppleScript Editor? or another app you are using?

It's the default app, I used automator to make the script, if you want i can post it to you somewhere, here, try to get it from here

I tried that, the temp folder already exists whenever I tried to create it...

My folder:

/private/var/folders

Where this is reported as writing to

now has 2.39 GB in it.

Can I delete the contents?

Thanks ...
Ken

5 days later and it's 970 MB.

Strange.

Ken