Syslogd Process

If you're using Leopard's Time Machine, from time to time check out the ram/cpu usage on a process called "syslogd." It gets extremely high, the good news is all you have to do is kill the process and it restarts in a few seconds at its normal ram usage around 7MB. There are two ways to go about doing this without having to open Activity Monitor every time you notice this problem. The first way uses the Terminal, just type in sudo killall syslogd then enter in your password. like this:

Or you could write an Applescript that says the following:

This is what I do because I use the scripts menu item and I can access and run this and other commonly used scripts with just a quick click. I like menu items a lot, what can I say? :)