BTT creating lots of processes

Bug Reports
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Hi there,

Restarted plenty of times and use the latest Alpha

Describe the bug
When BTT is running a lot of bash processes are created over time which I can see in Activity Monitor. They all point to "BetterTouchToolShellScriptRunner".

Chrome and Electron apps (Obsidian/MS Teams) seem to be affected the most, and after some time no .dmg's can be mounted and Terminal does not work:
"[forkpty: Resource temporarily unavailable]
[Could not create a new process and open a pseudo-tty.]"

Maybe I misconfigured something in BTT, but I'm not a heavy user and only added a shortcut for one application recently.

If I disable BTT no more bash processes are added. If I quit BTT, no. of bash processes is reduced...

What can do to troubleshoot?

Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):
Mac Mini M1, mostly Electron apps

Device information:

  • Type of Mac: Mac mini M1
  • macOS version: Ventura 13.3.1 (a)
  • BetterTouchTool version: (please post the exact version - not just "the latest one") 4.075 (2291)

Thanks in advance for any hint.

2

do you maybe run some scripts that do not „end“ but keep running? In general the script runner closes if a script has run.

3

Thanks Andreas,

is there a way to find out which script keeps running?

I tested a little bit by keeping an eye on the activity monitor and triggering shortcuts/automations I often use - but could spot no pattern...but the "bash" remain and dramatically increase as soon as I start Chrome (although I have no automations/triggers for it).

It's a little bit strange as my MacBook Air M1 does run smoothly with similar (but not identical) presets.

Viele Grüße
Conny

4

it’s a bit weird, as macOS shouldn’t even create multiple instances of that process if everything would work correctly.

Could you go to help -> export diagnostic debug information and send the result to me? (andreas@folivora.ai) Maybe I can figure out what’s happening

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