{"id":163,"date":"2003-08-20T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T18:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/08\/20\/os-x-tech-trivia\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:32:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:32:58","slug":"os-x-tech-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/08\/20\/os-x-tech-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X Tech Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a79'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m really lost.  I&#8217;m noticing on an iMac that after awhile it gets DOG slow.  As in waiting tens of seconds for any response from the GUI after awhile.   I&#8217;m completely baffled to why this happens.  The Console Log tool shows nothing.   When I ssh into the machine (lucky when that even works) and get a process listing I see -psn_0_blahblah tacked onto Finder based processes.   Does anyone know what these mean?   I&#8217;ve been googling around but can&#8217;t find a single instance of this anywhere.  Doesn&#8217;t anyone else see these things?  Here&#8217;s a snippet to show what I mean (emphasis added to show the -psn options):<br \/>\n  401  ??  S      4:28.92 \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/Dock.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Dock <em><b>-psn_0_393217<\/b><\/em><br \/>\n  402  ??  S      0:36.82 \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/SystemUIServer.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/SystemUIServer <em><b>-psn_0_524289<\/b><\/em><br \/>\n  406  ??  S     12:35.89 \/Applications\/Virex 7\/Virex 7.1.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Virex 7.1 <em><b>-psn_0_917505<\/b><\/em><br \/>\n  476  ??  S      0:03.14 \/System\/Library\/Services\/AppleSpell.service\/Contents\/MacOS\/AppleSpell <em><b>-psn_0_1441793<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m really lost. I&#8217;m noticing on an iMac that after awhile it gets DOG slow. As in waiting tens of seconds for any response from the GUI after awhile. I&#8217;m completely baffled to why this happens. The Console Log tool shows nothing. When I ssh into the machine (lucky when that even works) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1213,1214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-osx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}