What does the defuseTicker log mean on MacOS?

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nmik2020 OP

Created Oct ’20

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I am working on a Packet Tunnel System Extension on MacOS. There are times when it appears that certain actions like opening and closing the socket are taking too long. The only thing I see in the logs are these messages corresponding to those actions and they don't happen often as well :

Code Block default	14:08:09.148452-0400	symptomsd	defusing ticker tickerFatal having seen progress by flow for ***_PROCESS, rxbytes 4980 duration 301.752 seconds started at time: Mon Oct 19 14:03:07 2020

What does this log basically imply? What are its effects on the System? Any specific way to figure out what exactly is causing it?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Oct ’20

symptomsd is involved in collecting analytics on the system. It includes a subsystem that does network analytics and this log entry is generated by that. Thus this log entry is a symptom, not a cause, of whatever problem you’re having.

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