What is com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper
I'm trying to troubleshoot speech recognition dodginess.
Executing ps -ax | grep audio
I get:
ps -ax | grep audio
130 ?? 2:40.49 /usr/sbin/coreaudiod
166 ?? 0:00.02 /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/XPCServices/com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper
168 ?? 0:00.47 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.audio.DriverHelper.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.audio.DriverHelper
1931 ?? 0:00.02 /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/XPCServices/com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper
1949 ttys001 0:00.00 grep audio
What is com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper
? Why would I need one, let alone two?
For what it's worth, I've been looking at an audio issue today and noticed I had 6 different instances of com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper
running. Checking showed that the system thinks it has 6 different audio devices attached, so it seems each audio device get a SandboxHelper
to look after it.
Oddly, no other piece of hardware, or associated drivers, has a SandboxHelper
associated with it, so either the audio devices are the only ones that need help operating in a Sandbox, or only the audio driver team used that name and other tasks running in Sandboxes have their helpers called something else.