What is the aspd process?

I suspect your inability to connect to those apps is caused by something other than the unloaded daemon, unless disabling it has a more dire effect than blocking the apsd connections does. Do you use LS? If so, maybe you blocked a necessary address?

Just a few days ago I began blocking ALL outgoing apsd connections.

At least I thought I was blocking them. I just checked and 41 still got through.

I blocked it because I noticed that the apsd process was connecting continually throughout the day for no apparent reason.

I rebooted 36 hours ago, and you can see there have been over 14,000 connection attempts!

I thought maybe doing so would block Calendar from syncing with iCloud, but haven't noticed any problems.

And I'm still able to connect to the iTunes Store, App Store & iCloud.

To Disable APSD (Apple Push Notification Service Daemon)

Open Terminal, enter:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.apsd.plist

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To re-enable the process, you can use this:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.apsd.plist

sources:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/launchctl.1.html

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disabling-unnecessary-mac-osx-services/

Hello guys, I've been here and this discussion led me to a problem in El Capitan.

Fiat least in El Capitan the com.apple.psd.plist process is used to login to iCloud, AppStore and iTunes.

I followed this solution unloading this daemon and later was unable to login to any of these apps.

I hope this helps anybody

Network connections were my first guess for all these problem, those numbers are showing I was right.

I work with Pro Tools, in order to do heavy audio processing I simply turn WiFi off. It works much better. With WiFi on, network traffic often ruins processing power killing playback in Pro Tools at any time.

I think it is time to file a bug report asking Apple to manage properly priority with all those connections. The list of online based apps is long, from iCloud to FaceTime, mail, Calendar and the list goes on...

No matter how fast is your computer, mine is an i7. I think the consumer experience will be much different depending on the local internet speed.

Today on my Mac running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Little Snitch intercepted a connection request from the apsd process, so I went to Google to find out what "apsd" is, and I found this thread. I have been using this Mac (and Little Snitch) for six months and I don't recall seeing a connection request from the apsd process before. In my case, what is new is that I recently set up an iCloud account on my Mac, including an iCloud e-mail account in Mail.app. In the six prior months, I had been using my Mac without iCloud. As you probably know, iCloud e-mail accounts use push notifications. As noted above, "apsd" stands for Apple Push Notification Service daemon. Since I never saw a connection request from the apsd process until I set up an iCloud account on my Mac, I suspect the apsd traffic is exclusively iCloud-related in my case.

aspd-ft is Apple's push notification for FaceTime

http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/22/facetime_for_mac_uses_push_notificatio ns.html

That's a process window from Little Snitch's Network Monitor.

I added the orange bar at the bottom.

Here's one I took just now. Notice the 21,496 blocked attempts in the past two days!

Brian Cross wrote:

I don't use FaceTime at all, but I don't know if apsd is used for anything else.

Deny it then, permanently.

I would not give it access. APSD sends traffic to Apples network 17.x.x.x and I do not ever use facetime.

I forgot to mention APSD sends encrypted traffic out to Apple. when I blocked it I noticed no effect.

thanks guys

OT OregonRebel - what program is used to get those stats you posted in the image. Seaside rules.

I see. It took me a bit to find how to 'activate' that detail window, but got it now - thanks. Learn something new everyday.

Seaside rules.