Okay, I tried it. I removed Soundflower and ran a permissions repair, just in case. So far, emails seem to open immediately, and apps, while still slower to launch than even a Lion machine, are faster than they were. Hopefully this will do the trick. Thanks for your help, everyone. On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. 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.
