Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-16 Thread -
Do a google for: os10 coreaudiod There are severl examples of how people have delt with the problem. XB -- 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 mac

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-16 Thread Alex Hall
For now at least, removing Soundflower seems to have done it. Apps are still slow to open but not as bad as before, and emails rarely delay when I open them now. I have also noticed only one instance of Voiceover stuttering, and that was right after booting up. Hopefully this fix will make a cle

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-16 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't use soundflower but supposedly it includes an uninstaller app, which is the ideal way to get rid of all the pieces. If you want to do it manually you apparently have to not only delete the app but also the Soundflower.kext in /System/Library/Extensions and reboot. CB On 1/15/14 7:28 P

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-15 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Alex, Tim and Chris, How do you uninstall Soundflower? I too have it in my system preferences under the sound section but I don't need it and somehow sometimes I get a problem in that my audio routes itself through it and I lose Voiceover. It caused me a bit of a headache so I would be glad to

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Hall
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, 20

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-15 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks guys. I'll remove Soundflower, though I hate to as it is how I record my microphone and system audio simultaneously. Still, if it is the problem, I might look into a better solution like VAC or wait until someone fixes Soundflower. On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi,

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
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 wrote: > There are discussions of high CPU usage of the coreaudio process when > Soundflo

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-15 Thread Chris Blouch
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 th

Re: Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
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 insta

Possible cause of Mac's sluggishness: coreaudiod

2014-01-14 Thread Alex Hall
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, o