BTT is using lots of CPU (11%). When I look at Console.app, I see thousands of instances of BetterTouchToolScriptRunner: "AppleEvents: received mach msg which wasn't complex type as expected in getMemoryReference.", roughly every ~10ms. I have 8 TouchBar AppleScript Widgets that poll every few sec…

If this turns out to be a widget issue, I'll make sure to back-port the fix to my preset :slightly_smiling_face: I've also been seeing similar CPU usage but haven't been able to identify the issue yet. But maybe that's because it's not an issue with the widgets? Can you share a screenshot of your B…

My Touch Bar settings: [image] One of the Widgets: [image] [image]

Update: I re-enabled my widgets one by one while watching Activity Monitor. After re-enabling them all, I'm still seeing the console messages but the CPU seems to be behaving fine. BetterTouchTool varies between 1% and 6%, and BetterTouchToolScriptRunner and BetterTouchToolAppleScriptRunner are flo…

The log messages are normal, it's a bug in macOS 10.13.4-6 but fixed in the Mojave beta. Unfortunately I don't know of a way to prevent them. (it's possible to automatically delete them, but shouldn't be necessary) There is not much you can do to significantly reducing cpu usage, unfortunately runn…

I have the 2.9GHz i9. I'll keep an eye out to see if I can reproduce the high CPU usage; if I do what logs/debugging would be useful? I'd assumed that the CPU was related to the ScriptRunner because that's what I'd seen in the logs, but this may be an independent (and duplicate?) issue, since I did…

The best way would be to sample the problematic process using this terminal command: sample BetterTouchTool -file ~/Desktop/sample.txt It's a bit funny how much CPU utilization these 6 core machines show, for example browsing on my old i7 never showed such high CPU values, on my 6 core MBP Chrome …

Depending on what widgets you’re using, it might be possible to convert them to shell scripts or even services (push based). This would dramatically reduce CPU and energy usage. Aside: I’m planning on releasing my test results regarding AppleScript widgets and battery life in the next day or so.

I can't wait to see your results! Where are you going to post them? How can BTT integrate with services? I'd love to stop polling every seconds for just to trigger external state changes...

[image] wemcdonald: How can BTT integrate with services? I'd love to stop polling every seconds for just to trigger external state changes... I published a set of open source control strip widgets that use event-driven services as models here: https://community.folivora.ai/t/a-standard-set-of…

Here are the preliminary battery life results: [image] (Updated) Testing the battery life impact of AppleScript widgets Discussion & Questions Hey there! I know many of you, myself included, have been interested in the battery life impact of running AppleScript Touch Bar…

AppleScriptRunner causes high CPU, log warnings every few ms

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior

andrewchidden August 25, 2018, 5:46am 11

Here are the preliminary battery life results: