Good afternoon,
On 24/02/10 at 10:21 AM -0800, Seymour
<[email protected]> wrote:
BBEdit launches an extra process called "crash-catcher". It shows up
in Activity Monitor and I can manually quit the process, but I'd like
to just disable it from ever staring up.
I'm running BBEdit 9.3.1 on an iBook G3 with Mac OS X 10.4.11, so I
want to run as lean as possible and that means no extra stuff no
matter how small. It all adds up!
I doubt there is a sane way to kill that process. And what
benefit do you *really* expect to gain from it not running? Are
you simply looking for a shorter process list? Are you trying to
reclaim extra CPU cycles? Do you need every last KB of memory to
be free? Or something else?
I don't think killing crash-catcher will achieve any of that for
you. Having one extra item in the process list *really* won't
matter to your system. I haven't seen the code for
crash-catcher, but I would bet good money that it is using
*zero* CPU cycles. And the amount of memory it's using is just
over 500KB. If your system is that starved for memory then I'm
sure crash-catcher will have been swapped to disk anyway. So the
net effect to your system for having crash-catcher running will
be the 500KB used on disk for swap. [Note, the above was
simplified somewhat for sake of conversation.]
I'm sure there are lots of other things that can be done to free
up that 500KB than trying to figure out how to launch BBEdit
without crash-catcher.
I couldn't find "crash-catcher" in the BBEdit package but I did find
"Crash Reporter.app" which I'm guessing "crash-catcher" will try to
launch if needed. But "Crash Reporter" can't even run on my Mac, when
launched it throws: "You cannot use the application Crash Reported
with this version of Mac OS X". So "crash-catcher" isn't going to do
anything anyway.
I would bet that Crash Reporter won't run unless it's actually
reporting a crash. It's common for apps to expect certain stuff
passed to them (or environment set up) before they will run. I'm
sure that's what is happening in this case.
Charlie
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