Hi, Good job on researching Chris. It sounds to me from this that it is a bigger issue than just for us using VO.
Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > There are discussions of high CPU usage of the coreaudio process when > Soundflower runs into issues here: > > https://discussions.apple.com/message/23643199#23643199 > > Might want to try uninstalling it and see if that resolves the issue. Seems > that the tool has gone dormant with the last update to the open source > version being made August 2012. > > http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/downloads/list > > Latest developer stuff sounds like some folks are still working on it: > > https://github.com/Cycling74/Soundflower > > CB > > On 1/15/14 11:16 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> The amount of Virtual memory sounds to be about normal. The CPU usage is >> very high though for that. I’m guessing that the Mini just doesn’t have the >> processing power and coupled with only 4 GB of RAM, you may have found the >> culprit. If you have an external drive that you could install Mavericks >> onto, and not bother with the SoundFlower stuff, it would be your best >> method of testing things. There could be a small lag due to the use of an >> external drive as your Startup drive, but you’d be able to look at the >> Activity Monitor as well as note the state of your VO speech. >> >> Later… >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Jan 14, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I may have found the cause of my Mac's problems: the coreaudiod process is >>> taking 30 to 35 percent CPU, and over 2.5gb of virtual memory (185mb of >>> real memory). I have things piped through Soundflower, but that shouldn't >>> matter, should it? I can't kill the process to see if that helps, of >>> course, since I need speech. Any ideas on how I might get it back to >>> normal? Thanks. >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> mehg...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
