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Comment by Nicholas Riley:
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QuickDraw was not ported to be 64-bit clean, so I imagine this gets launched in 64-bit Cocoa when you try to render a PICT.
QTKit does something similar to run 32-bit codecs in an external process.
Comment by ssp:
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That sounds like a very good explanation, thanks. I’ll try to keep an eye on which app might need this. I.e. which apps except httpd and iScrobbler actually are 64bit.
Comment by ssp:
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I am starting to be fairly sure that iScrobbler launched the pictd thingy. When hovering over its icon in the menu bar the process seems to be launched. I think iScrobbler is supposed to show album cover art when doing that (doesn’t work for me though).
Thinning the binary with lipo to remove the x86_64 architecture (what would be the benefit of having a 64bit binary for such a small utility anyway?) avoids launching of pictd. (I still don’t see any images appearing, but perhaps that’s just some sort of other bug.)
Comment by frupp:
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Hi,
on my System pictd is often launched when much of my memory is flagged as “inactive”. It then gathers up to 50% of my installed RAM (also if only 300MB are free) and then quits suddenly. After that crazy behaviour my RAM is free again… nothingless this produces many pageouts in my swapfile (sometimes up to 50% auf the pageins, which is a really bad value). Thats not nice for performance and I also think it’s kinda weird.
Btw.: Installed RAM is 3GB
Comment by Rob:
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I have this problem too. Once I quit pictd, my computer became more responsive - it was using 1Gb of RAM.
Comment by Britt:
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I know this may not be related to ur conversation, but i have a virus on my computer named pictd and i was wondering if u knew how to get ride of it, it keeps on poping up ever 20 seconds :(
Comment by dan:
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Britt,
C:>FORMAT C:
should do the trick
