A hardware issue is possible, I'm trying to remember if warmd is a
normal process, it doesn't come to mind, you might try ending it with
command option q. I wonder if the display port is actually having
problems. Here's another thought, if you're running lion or mountain
lion on the mini that's having problems, try booting in to recovery.
Does voiceover have problems there? If so, you can be pretty sure that
it's not a process causing the problem.
Original message:
Mike, it has taken me a while but I have finally been able to compare
my two Mac Minis with activity monitor. Unfortunately, they don't look
very different from each other. This is unfortunate because it gives me
no more of an explanation for why one of them is running the way it is.
The only processes that show a great amount of activity our activity
monitor and voiceover. There is another one that's called warmd and I
don't know what it does. it isn't using any CPU but I just wonder about
it, because it's owned by nobody.
I purchased cocktail, and I'm very glad I did. I have run it on both
minis and done some tweaking, but it hasn't changed the situation on
the one that is sick. It still runs extremely erratically, and
voiceover cannot speak more than a few syllables without being cut off.
Everything is still busy, even if the only thing running his finder.
I'm starting to wonder if there's something going on with the hardware.
It seems very sudden, but it's the only conclusion I have left.
Kristeen
On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:
Cocktail is an app that allows you to tweak some things, it will also
do things like clear your cache.
You can look at the processes on your mac by going in to activity
monitor, you will find it in the utilities folder.
Original message:
Mike, What is cocktail exactly?
Also, how can I learn more about the processes on the Mac and what they
do. I am curious about the comparisons between the PC processes, which
I know like the back of my hand, and the Mac side of the coin, which is
all still very new to me.
Kristeen
On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:
If anyone is curious, I was able to figure this out. Even when I only
had finder running, voiceover would still say there were 2 running
apps. The notification center is considered an app, even though you
cannot command tab to it, or select it from the dock. Since I never use
this feature, I used an application called cocktail to disable it, now
the number of running applications is spoken correctly.
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