senddmp spinning

[samenor]

When Fusion 360 crashes (which is incidently still far, far more common than it should be), it launches a process «senddmp» which, itself, often hangs and ends up using a ton of CPU time even after killing the frozen crash reporter.

In the last few days alone, I've had a couple dozen crashes where the crash reporter froze before sending the report in or completing the process (no way of confirming one way or another). My MacBook Air's fan has been running constantly which I attributed to Fusion 360 constantly churning (which is another issue) but then I noticed it was still going even though I stopped using the program last night. I looked in Activity Monitor and saw a few instances of «senddmp» running, each using 100% of a hyperthreaded core so I'm guessing it's a single thread caught in some sort of a loop.. all of the above is super annoying and should be fixed before you start charging 🙂

[schneik-adsk]

Are you on 10.9?

[samenor]

Yeah.. actually now 10.9.1 13B35 but I had the same issue in the GM of 10.9

[samenor]

I know you accepted this already but just because it keeps happening, it's freezing here

then after I kill that I've got this going forever until I force-quit it.

[Seychellian]

Same problem for me. I have senddmp taking up 100% of my processor and I dont even have AutoCAD running. Help!

[kennymillar]

I am seeing this too,

currently senddmp is using 59% of my total cpu

[kennymillar]

To kill the process without re-booting this is what I did...

Open a new terminal session using the terminal app.

enter top -o cpu to find the process ID for senddmp

then issue this command to kill it:

sudo kill -9 <processID>

For example, on my system it was:

sudo kill -9 2502

make sure you use the correct process id.

[roambotics_scott]

In the production release ?

It's at least still getting stuck (and taking an aggressive kill -9 to actually end it)..