When I last wrote about this issue regarding a process in OS X Mavericks that was chewing up about 3GB a day of bandwidth on my Internet connection, several things have happened. First of all, I tried several suggestions to fix it from this thread on the Apple Discussion boards that involve going to the command line of OS X and running commands to delete files related to the CRL and OCSP processes. None of them seemed to work as my bandwidth consumption didn’t seem to change. Then earlier this week OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 came out, so I upgraded both my MacBook Pro and my wife’s Mac Mini and I let myself be the guinea pig by turning Certificate Revocation List (CRL) to On in Keychain Access. So far it seems my bandwidth consumption has returned to normal. So I’ve now turned on the same option on my wife’s Mac Mini to see if the behavior is the same. If it does work, that implies that there is a fix for this issue in 10.9.1. Though some seem to be having mixed results with it according to the thread on the Apple Discussion boards that I referenced.
Another thing to note, besides the bandwidth consumption issues, I wanted to fix this because turning off the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) option in theory makes the Mac less secure as there is a possibility that it may not be able to properly validate digital certificates. Now OCSP should make up for that, but it’s best to have both options turned on.
I will update this post with the results from my wife’s Mac Mini.
UPDATE: It looks like the Mac Mini is working as expected now as well. I’ll continue to monitor things, but either 10.9.1 or the other suggestions from the thread on the Apple Discussion boards fixed the issue.
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An Update To My OS X Mavericks Bandwidth Issue [UPDATED]
When I last wrote about this issue regarding a process in OS X Mavericks that was chewing up about 3GB a day of bandwidth on my Internet connection, several things have happened. First of all, I tried several suggestions to fix it from this thread on the Apple Discussion boards that involve going to the command line of OS X and running commands to delete files related to the CRL and OCSP processes. None of them seemed to work as my bandwidth consumption didn’t seem to change. Then earlier this week OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 came out, so I upgraded both my MacBook Pro and my wife’s Mac Mini and I let myself be the guinea pig by turning Certificate Revocation List (CRL) to On in Keychain Access. So far it seems my bandwidth consumption has returned to normal. So I’ve now turned on the same option on my wife’s Mac Mini to see if the behavior is the same. If it does work, that implies that there is a fix for this issue in 10.9.1. Though some seem to be having mixed results with it according to the thread on the Apple Discussion boards that I referenced.
Another thing to note, besides the bandwidth consumption issues, I wanted to fix this because turning off the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) option in theory makes the Mac less secure as there is a possibility that it may not be able to properly validate digital certificates. Now OCSP should make up for that, but it’s best to have both options turned on.
I will update this post with the results from my wife’s Mac Mini.
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