Resets fontd, which sometimes takes up 95% of the CPU for no apparent reason on OSX.
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kill-fontd

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kill-fontd

Resets fontd, which sometimes takes up 95% of the CPU for no apparent reason on OSX.

Installation

  1. Download kill-fontd (Right click > Save As... > Downloads).

  2. Remove the .txt extension.

  3. Open Terminal and type/paste this:

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x kill-fontd

You may want to use crontab to run it automatically every so often. Remember to use the root crontab.