Core Audio (coreaudiod) busy doing nothing?

[randyhudson]

I wonder if the audio problems on the Mac Pro affect all Macs? My MBP shows coreaudiod pegged at 6.9% when I'm completely idle, and of course not emitting any audio.

Why is coreaudiod so busy doing nothing?

 

[m85476585]

That's not the same problem. Try rebooting.

 

[randyhudson]

That's not the same problem. Try rebooting.

Really, rebooting? That's your suggestion? How does that address the actual problem?

 

[m85476585]

Sometimes coreaudio gets stuck for some reason. I've seen it happen on my MBP sometimes, but I don't know why it happens or how to prevent it. Rebooting usually resets it, although just killing the coreaudio process might work too.

I don't know the details about the Mac Pro problem, but from what I've read I know it only happens while audio is playing, and there is an increase in CPU temperature without anything showing CPU utilization.

 

[randyhudson]

Screenshot must have timed out

I guess the direct URL to my twitpic JPG is not a permanent URL. Here's a screenshot.

http://twitpic.com/13l6g7

BTW, I started killing processes (just applications) the last time this happened, and eventually it went back to idle. It may have been Adium??

 

[Saturn1217]

The exact same thing happened to me last night for the first time.

I just killed the process (hope that is okay?) and it hasn't come back yet so I'm hoping everything is okay

Not a huge deal, just slightly annoying...