> On Mar 29, 2018, at 10:49 PM, Quincey Morris 
> <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 29, 2018, at 21:00 , Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> How can I figure out what notification is posting at a high rate?
> 
> Not sure, but have you turned on “NSWindow.acceptsMouseMovedEvents” by any 
> chance?

I have not called -[NSWindow acceptsMouseMovedEvents]. My custom view 
implements -[NSResponder mouseMoved:] but the frameworks never call this method 
during a mouse drag.

My custom view implements -[NSResponder mouseDragged:] but this has never 
caused any problems. When I turn on custom logging for mouseDragged: I get 
following output.

Mouse Dragged Rate: 125.7 events per second
Mouse Dragged Rate: 124.1 events per second
Mouse Dragged Rate: 124.2 events per second
Mouse Dragged Rate: 124.8 events per second
Mouse Dragged Rate: 125.2 events per second
Mouse Dragged Rate: 124.6 events per second
Mouse Dragged Rate: 168.3 events per second
2018-03-30 12:58:01.798960-0600 Xsolid[72930:1753914] Detected potentially 
harmful notification post rate of 112.994 notifications per second

This is confusing because several years ago I turned on custom logging and 
recorded that AppKit would throttle NSLeftMouseDragged events to a maximum of 
about 60.0 events per seconds but that obviously is not the case now.

To try and track down the problem I implemented notification logging by 
swizzling the following methods.

-[NSNotification postNotification:]
-[NSNotification postNotificationName:object:]
-[NSNotification postNotificationName:object:userInfo:]

Here is the output when dragging with the mouse in the custom view. I manually 
formatted the output with blank lines after the fact to make it more readable.

NotificationName  TimeIntervalInSeconds
=======================================

NSApplicationWillBecomeActiveNotification   986.597
NSApplicationWillBecomeActiveNotification   986.597
NSApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification    986.597
NSApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification    986.597
NSWindowDidBecomeMainNotification           986.602
NSWindowDidBecomeMainNotification           986.602

MyDocumentWindowDidActivate         986.602
MyDocumentWindowDidActivate         986.602

NSMenuDidChangeItemNotification     986.602
NSWindowDidBecomeKeyNotification    986.609
NSWindowDidBecomeKeyNotification    986.609

NSGestureEventMaskChanged           986.611
NSGestureEventMaskChanged           986.611

NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.633
NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.633
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.633
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.633
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.633
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.633

NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.635
NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.635
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.635
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.635
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.635
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.635

NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.723
NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.723
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.723
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.723
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.723
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.723

NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.723
NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 986.723
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.723
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       986.723
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.723
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  986.723

NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 987.739
NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 987.739
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       987.739
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       987.739
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  987.739
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  987.739

NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 987.745
NSApplicationWillUpdateNotification 987.745
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       987.745
NSWindowDidUpdateNotification       987.745
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  987.745
NSApplicationDidUpdateNotification  987.745

2018-03-30 12:23:07.850854-0600 MyApp[72672:1742782] Detected potentially 
harmful notification post rate of 102.59 notifications per second

My code does not call any of these notifications except 
MyDocumentWindowDidActivate so this is very puzzling.

--Richard Charles

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