January 28, 2005, London).įounded in 1967 and charting one of the most tumultuous careers in rock history, Traffic underwent substantial shifts in both musical style and membership. August 2, 1944, Evesham, Worcestershire-d. May 10, 1946, Worcester, Worcestershire, England), and drummer Jim Capaldi (b. July 12, 1983, Birmingham), guitarist Dave Mason (b. May 12, 1948, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England), flautist-saxophonist Chris Wood (b. Principal members included singer-keyboardist Steve Winwood (b.

This seems to be recent, or it comes in fits and spurts.Traffic, British rock group of the 1960s and ’70s, known for incorporating lengthy jazzlike improvisation into rock-music structures. Problem not solved yet but this may have been what is draining my DSL bandwidth I have spent hours with Brightspeed (Centurylink) tech support trying to solve / complain the poor connectivity. Killing process, it comes back in a second. However, the blocked requests look like about 1,000 requests PER SECOND, and it is at the top of my %CPU usage in Monitor. I don't know what idleassetsd is doing but since blocking it my DSL speeds are back to their crumby usual self. For comparison, the process nsurlsessiond has only done 5GB). Screen grab attached: for some time (how long ?) idleassetsd has pulled down 126GBytes from. I have Little Snitch (ObjectiveDevelopment) firewall (highly recommend - not in Apple Store) and took a look at what's using my bandwidth. I've been trying to uncover what has caused my household bandwidth to sink to 1 and 2Mbit download speeds.

Idleassetsd connecting to might be what has been causing my rural 4Mbit DSL download speed to land in the crater recently. Apple, you have a demand-hog failure with idelassetsd (150% usage thread and 1,000 network requests per second makes my system glitchy - how about backing that off to 1 network check per five seconds for this NON-ESSENTIAL daemon task?). Maybe I only have another 50GB of animated screen savers and backgrounds remaining to be downloaded, and it will be finished with me and this episode will end. Network upload traffic is negligible compared to download traffic.Īgain, this is on Sonoma 14.4.1 on an old Mac mini (2018) on a rural DSL line that only achieves (at best) 4MBits/sec download and 512Kbits upload speed (often worse - Thanks to Brightspeed/Centurylink for never replacing the buried copper-pair POTS lines since they were put in).Īt some point, I might get to transport the MacMini to a place with Google Fiber and let it download to its heart's content. I also played with LittleSnitch firewall to see the effect on Activity Monitor CPU %, and real-time network traffic (reported for process by LittleSnitch) when I block and unblock network access for idleassetsd.īlocked: about 1,000 'network access requests denied' per second, CPU % usage goes to about 150% and system heats up, and network download is reduced by about 500KBytes/sec.Īllowed: one 'network access requests allowed', CPU % usage goes to about 2% and system cools off, and network download is runs continuously at a rate of additional 500KBytes/sec over whatever else is going on. Some additional content might also be hosted on third-party content distribution networks.ĭescription: Aerial screen savers and wallpaper Use Apple products on enterprise networks - Apple SupportĪpple devices need access to the following hosts and domains for installing and updating apps, using certain app features, and downloading additional content. Here is one more piece of information, after I searched Apple support for idelassetsd, I got this

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