I'll detail a bit more below but - what is com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4) ?
My computer works well much of the time. Then it just seems to start tripping over itself. Track pad is jerky, operations in different apps I happen to be using at the time lag and hesitate. And I have had more application crashes since upgrading to Mavericks than I've had in almost 30 years of running a Mac.
Activity Monitor had what seemed excessive stats for kernel-task: (these change when I reboot but grow)
Memory: 801MB Threads: 101
CPU: .03-1.1%
CPU Time: It was over 30:00:00 - all others were less than 10:00
Idle Wake Ups also is out of line with hundreds when all others are single digit.
WindowServer runs second with high numbers.
Disk: Bytes Written: 3.29GB - Next high, launchd, was at 338MB. About 10 others had less than 10MB while most were in KB area.
In searching for why kernel_task had such large, out of line numbers, I came upon a Terminal command to check for third party kext files.
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -ef
It returned:
com.kensington.trackballworks.driver (1.1.2)
com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4)
I understand Kensington - have one but have now disconnected it (only use it in Bootcamp)
Searched com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4) and found many with problems also had this in the various utility outputs they posted.
I cannot find what com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4) is or does.
Could it be related to my problem of jerky Mac? If so, how do I find and kill the sucker?
Thanks.
Doug
My computer works well much of the time. Then it just seems to start tripping over itself. Track pad is jerky, operations in different apps I happen to be using at the time lag and hesitate. And I have had more application crashes since upgrading to Mavericks than I've had in almost 30 years of running a Mac.
Activity Monitor had what seemed excessive stats for kernel-task: (these change when I reboot but grow)
Memory: 801MB Threads: 101
CPU: .03-1.1%
CPU Time: It was over 30:00:00 - all others were less than 10:00
Idle Wake Ups also is out of line with hundreds when all others are single digit.
WindowServer runs second with high numbers.
Disk: Bytes Written: 3.29GB - Next high, launchd, was at 338MB. About 10 others had less than 10MB while most were in KB area.
In searching for why kernel_task had such large, out of line numbers, I came upon a Terminal command to check for third party kext files.
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -ef
It returned:
com.kensington.trackballworks.driver (1.1.2)
com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4)
I understand Kensington - have one but have now disconnected it (only use it in Bootcamp)
Searched com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4) and found many with problems also had this in the various utility outputs they posted.
I cannot find what com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4) is or does.
Could it be related to my problem of jerky Mac? If so, how do I find and kill the sucker?
Thanks.
Doug
