OCSPD downloads - seem continuous

Linc,

OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)

thanks Linc, that appears to have worked. No adverse affects?

Spoke too soon, all the files are back and the downloads have resumed. Wonder what is really going on there? Some poor person has posted that they lost 1.5G in a day. Mine will become an ornament if it can't be sorted out. Will have to investigate whether wireshark or similar runs on mac. May need to chat to the place I bought it from if it can't be sorted....

Would appreciate any further advice.

Thanks for all your help Linc, no idea why I was sold a machine with an outdated operating system in the first place.Guessing I will have to pay for the "upgrade" to something that will work for me. I've resisted giving my CC details to the app store so unless I can get it without doing that, it won't be an option.

Weirdest thing is that after a day or so of use the machine notified that there was an operating system update and I accepted i thinking it was an upgrade to Yosemite as that was splashed all over the page it took me to. Now see that it's 10.9 vs 10.10.

Thanks again, won't pester again, if the upgrade can't go through free I'll see if I can arrange a refund and stick to what I've used for 30 Years.

Back 🙂, found further discussions and noticed that you have contributed a lot, thanks.I see that the upgrade is around 5.5G so that cuts me out with only 6G per Month.

I've also noticed with mail (1 account added with only 14 small emails) that the usage each time I logged on was around 78MB which is unasseptable as some would say. Also when logging on to apple to check for yosemite, safari usage was 6.8 MB which also seems excessive...

If the following is/was true and the time limit was increased to anything under around 30 mins it wouldn't solve my problem as my speed is really slow and based on past experience 30 MB takes around 30 Mins.

Steffel Dec 10, 2013 6:44 AM
Re: OCSP Service using up quite a bit of bandwidth in response to emlynuk

Hi All,

have you seen this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5578275?answerId=23948089022#23948089022

It seems that devimages.apple.com which is part of the ocspd process tries to download a 35MB file but only keeps the connection alive for about 7 seconds. This time is too short for most of the Internet conncetions to receive the full file, so the system seems to try to get the full file again and again (for 7 seconds). Some users report they have seen up to 50 times the attempt to download this file resulting in 1GB of traffic per day.

On our server, this problem still seems to be persisting. It does not seem to be solved yet and I guess this will have to be adressed with a system update.

For us this isn't a problem as we have a real Internet flatrate, but what about all the mass of people with a limited data plan in the rest of the world? I don't understand why this isn't even commented by Apple.

This is getting Windows like! ;-)

Regards

Steffel