Skip to main content
Ask Different

Return to Question

added 10 characters in body
Source Link
thorr18
thorr18
  • 163
  • 1
  • 7

I see 18 instances of the process AppleUserHIDDrivers running on my MacOS, according to the activity monitor, belonging to the user _driverkit. The parent process is listed as launchd. What could be causing this? I'm running MacOS 10.15.4 I rebooted recently so these didn't accumulate over a long period of time. I believe HID is input devices. I do have a wired/wireless keyboard, wired/wireless mouse, external monitor that accepts USB uplink for input devices, and wireless headsets. I don't have 18 different input devices, though. What is could spawn so many processes of the same name or how might I track it down better?

I see 18 instances of the process AppleUserHIDDrivers running on my MacOS, according to the activity monitor, belonging to the user _driverkit. The parent process is listed as launchd. What could be causing this? I'm running MacOS 10.15.4 I rebooted recently so these didn't accumulate over a long period of time. I believe HID is input devices. I do have a wired/wireless keyboard, wired/wireless mouse, external monitor that accepts USB uplink for input devices, and wireless headsets. I don't have 18 different input devices. What is could spawn so processes of the same name or how might I track it down better?

I see 18 instances of the process AppleUserHIDDrivers running on my MacOS, according to the activity monitor, belonging to the user _driverkit. The parent process is listed as launchd. What could be causing this? I'm running MacOS 10.15.4 I rebooted recently so these didn't accumulate over a long period of time. I believe HID is input devices. I do have a wired/wireless keyboard, wired/wireless mouse, external monitor that accepts USB uplink for input devices, and wireless headsets. I don't have 18 different input devices, though. What could spawn so many processes of the same name or how might I track it down better?

Source Link
thorr18
thorr18
  • 163
  • 1
  • 7

What is could spawn tons of processes called AppleUserHIDDrivers over and over

I see 18 instances of the process AppleUserHIDDrivers running on my MacOS, according to the activity monitor, belonging to the user _driverkit. The parent process is listed as launchd. What could be causing this? I'm running MacOS 10.15.4 I rebooted recently so these didn't accumulate over a long period of time. I believe HID is input devices. I do have a wired/wireless keyboard, wired/wireless mouse, external monitor that accepts USB uplink for input devices, and wireless headsets. I don't have 18 different input devices. What is could spawn so processes of the same name or how might I track it down better?