Re: [OT] Multiple instances of ATSServer slowing down login/logout procedure
Re: [OT] Multiple instances of ATSServer slowing down login/logout procedure
- Subject: Re: [OT] Multiple instances of ATSServer slowing down login/logout procedure
- From: Robin Mikawa <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:14:59 -0800
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 12:55 AM, MacInsight wrote:
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?
This is most definitely a bug. We've seen sporadic instances of the
problem here at Apple, but mostly when we were messing with ATS server
restarts during debug sessions. The problem usually went away when we
re-booted. It may be caused by corrupted cache files located in
/System/Library/Caches, /Library/Caches, and ~/Library/Caches:
sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/fontTablesAnnex
sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer*
sudo rm /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer*
rm ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATSServer*
sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.FCache*
sudo rm /Library/Caches/com.apple.FCache*
rm ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.FCache*
If you can get this to happen again (or even if you don't), I'd be very
interested in a copy of any ATSServer crash logs from ~/Library/Logs/
or an ATSServer error log from /var/tmp/. If it's a recurring problem,
then a description of any additional fonts you've installed would also
be helpful.
Robin
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