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I use a piece of specialty software that seems to be dealing badly with App Nap. Is there a way to retroactively list when App Nap acted on a specific process?

The Console log shows symptoms (Spindump reports when an app is throttled for excessive wakelocks or cpu use) but I can't find anything related to the third type of App Nap throttling (priority reduction), quoting from developer docs:

For any app that is not performing important user work, App Nap triggers a number of measures, including:

  • Priority reduction, which reduces the process priority of an app so that it receives a smaller share of available processor time

  • Timer throttling, which reduces the frequency with which an app’s timers are fired

  • I/O throttling, which reduces the rate at which an app can read or write data from a device while foreground apps need the device

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  • Not what you asked - but you can disable app nap on a per-app basis. Find the application in the Finder, go to File -> Get Info, and then the check the box next to "Prevent App Nap" in the General section.
    – Todd
    Oct 23, 2014 at 0:40
  • The checkbox doesn't appear for the app in question, not sure why. I've disabled in the app's plist using the following line: defaults write com.app.whatever NSAppSleepDisabled 1 which has improved things but I'm still seeing throttling in the console...
    – chananelb
    Oct 26, 2014 at 10:15
  • lapcatsoftware.com/articles/prevent-app-nap.html says that the App Nap checkbox in Finder doesn't appear for apps compiled with an SDK version >= 10.9. I have not personally verified this to be true, but it sounds very plausible.
    – Dale
    Aug 16, 2020 at 0:51

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app nap events are shown in the system.log (the easiest way to find them is to open up Console.app and look in All Messages).

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  • That's what I was referring to when I said that I can see cpu /timer throttling in the Console, but I can't seem to find priority reduction entries
    – chananelb
    Oct 23, 2014 at 4:37

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