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[OT] Multiple instances of ATSServer slowing down login/logout procedure
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[OT] Multiple instances of ATSServer slowing down login/logout procedure


  • Subject: [OT] Multiple instances of ATSServer slowing down login/logout procedure
  • From: MacInsight <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:55:51 +0100

Hi all,
I'm experiencing something that I'd consider as a bug in OS X  maybe someone can verify, comment, deny, etc. on this issue.

With increasing uptime of my Mac (G4 2x500, OSX <= 10.2.x) more and more instances of the ATSServer process are running.
The docs say: "ATSServer: The Apple Type Solution server, enabling system-wide font management."
I thought, one process at a given time should be enough, but if I'm wrong, so be it.
Though these multiple instances don't eat up any cpu cycles, of course, it's not *that* bad.
But I recognize that the time needed to login/logout from one user to another (I'm using two different users and am changing between them frequently) becomes the longer the more ATSServer processes are running.
This is annoying.

Usually I'm killing most of this processes (i.e. every ATSServer instance but the last recent launched, which is the one with the highest PID) via Terminal, often without obviously harming the system.

I searched into Apples KB (<http://kbase.info.apple.com>), with no result.

Is anyone able to shed some light on this issue?

Greetings,
Dirk Stegemann

(Sorry if using the wrong list, and again sorry for cross-posting)
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