Anyone having problems with distnoted?
A number of our machines have been affected by a runaway distnoted process after upgrading to El Capitan. We never had a problem with it under Yosemite.
Basically the machine will become unresponsive and if you are able to open Terminal or SSH into the machine and run top, you'll see the distnoted process consuming over 380% of the CPU and load averages of 300 or more. I recently had a load average of over 800 on my MacBook Air until I could kill the distnoted process. And as soon as the process is killed off, load averages start dropping immediately.
Anyone have an idea what causes this runaway process?