What is the PPC "translate" process?

Macskeeball · Post by **Macskeeball** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:13 am

Here are the options I see with US English on 10.3.9:

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:38 am

Oh right! Then, it shows up that way:

Post by **The_Tick** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:40 am

Show us the entire area there, you cut off a important portion (the parts above showing what it's a child process of)

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:03 am

The_Tick wrote:Show us the entire area there, you cut off a important portion (the parts above showing what it's a child process of)

OK. However, i will do it later, it isn't started now. But i have excalty the same apps opened as this morning!

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:03 am

Here it is. The first one is kernel_task and the highlighted one is "translate".
Thanks!

Album Art is not responding because i just closed iTunes and it always hangs a few seconds when i use it and then quit iTunes.

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:51 am

Well, we do know that it's something with launchd, as the screenshot before it got edited away showed us.

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:55 pm

Can you tell me what is launchd, so that i learn stuff from OS X

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:24 pm

http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/ ... esses.html

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:03 pm

Ethion wrote:http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/ ... esses.html

Cool link, boomarked

What about the translate process? Can you now see why it is launched?

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:42 pm

So, does the translate process tells anything to anyone?

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:35 pm

You know what, I'll try and find you that answer, after the 10.4.7 update.
If that is okay? It might be gone by then? Who knows?

I'm trying to access the apple discussion pages, but they seem to be down at the moment.

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:11 pm

Ethion wrote:You know what, I'll try and find you that answer, after the 10.4.7 update.
If that is okay? It might be gone by then? Who knows?

I'm trying to access the apple discussion pages, but they seem to be down at the moment.

Well, thanks a lot to help an Apple newbie switcher

10.4.7 is due to come these days?

Post by **The_Tick** » Mon May 29, 2006 8:16 pm

You're going to need to be patient arnoz on this one arnoz.

I don't think it's Adium or Growl doing it.

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:44 am

Well, i'll continue searching. Thanks a lot for your help!

memark · Post by **memark** » Tue May 30, 2006 3:52 pm

Is the process stealing a lot of CPU or memory? If not, why not just ignore it?

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Tue May 30, 2006 4:31 pm

It doesn't seem to use any CPU, and 10MB of memory. So no, it's not a big deal at all. But i am a switcher, and firstly i was wondering what it was. Then, i am also looking to have most of my apps in UB so that perfs are better (i suppose).
Coming from Windows, when you see a strange process in the activity monitor, you immediately think of a virus

(joke, i know it isn't...)

Travis · Post by **Travis** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:41 pm

I'm curious about this too.

I've pretty much just confirmed, I think, that Adium does not cause the "translate" process. I restarted my computer, and, before launching Adium, I check Activity Monitor, and Translate was there.

However, I have GrowlHelperApp, Quicksilver, iScrobbler, Dashboard KickStart, PopCopy, and textexpanderd in my login items. I'll be testing with login items off soon, to see if Translate comes from one of them. I suspect it does.

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:03 am

Maybe something like lsof or fs_usage would show what's going on?

arnoz · Post by **arnoz** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:21 am

Well, for me you're talking japanese right now

But anyway, thanks a lot for all your help! Will continue to read this thread.

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:48 am

Why can't it just be rosettta, being in the background.
As, it will start processing if a PPC binary is activated?