Q: Your internet on life support? Blame Photos app.
Unbelievable.
This morning my internet slowed down to a crawl. Noticed that iMac, iPhone, and iPad all crawling. So I turned on my iPhone hotspot and waited it out. (That works sometimes.) It didn't this time. Reset modem, airport, and such three times. Broadband would come, then go.
Then I had a theory. Maybe it was the iMac bringing the network down, since other devices were not really being used. Turned off iMac. Broadband explodes to 50 Megabit and stays steady. Turned iMac back down, internet is crawling on it's knees.
So I open up Activity Monitor. Under the network tab, something called 'nsurlsessiond' is sending packets everywhere. I Google this process and learn it's buddies with iCloud.
Then it hits me. That weird 'pause for a day' button in Photos preferences. I mean why not STOP AND START? I'm like, "Did this thing turn on by itself?" Opened up preferences, and yup -- Photos is trying to sneak upload what is still THOUSANDS of photos.
The problem here is that this isn't in the spirit of 'doing something in the background'. Because it decimates what a user is doing in foreground. This would be like if 'repair disk permissions' happened in the background... with no warning... for hours on end.
Again, unbelievable. Hope this helps someone.
Posted on Apr 13, 2015 3:16 PM
Thanks Drew Reese. Take some cigars out of petty cash.
Posted on Apr 14, 2015 11:14 AM

