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What kind of “messages” does Activity Monitor track with the “Messages Sent” and “Messages Received” columns?
In Activity Monitor on OS X, it is possible to add additional columns to the process list view. Two columns available in that list are "Messages Sent" and "Messages Received", which show up as "Sent ...
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What is installd, and why is it eating my CPU?
My Macbook is frying my lap, and the CPU monitor is going crazy: over 200% CPU being used by something called "installd".
What is it? Can I kill it?
(OS X 10.8.)
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How can I kill a process using top on OS X?
On other Unixe,s I can use top and then hit K and type the process ID.
How can I do that in OS X?
I can type kill [the_pid] on its own at the command line and that works. However, I was wondering if ...
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What is the InterCheck process that occasionally uses 96% CPU on my Mac?
I heard my computer's fan spinning fast, so I checked Activity Monitor and saw that a process called InterCheck was using close to 96% CPU. What is this process and why's it using so much CPU?
In the ...
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Why does SystemUIServer cause high CPU usage?
The SystemUIServer process is taking 30% of my CPU. Searching around reveals a Snow Leopard daylight savings bug which is solved by removing the clock from the menubar. I am on Lion and I have tried ...
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Why can't this process terminate?
Just recently I ran into an issue where my network program couldn't bind to a port because it was already in use. I opened the activity monitor and realized it (named "server") was already running ...
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Multiuser - can process of background user kept running?
On my Mac I use three user accounts. From what I understand when I'm logged in as one the processes of the other accounts are suspended. I switch between them with fast user switching.
My question is ...
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Is there something stronger than “Force Quit”?
I have an app that won't die: it's gone from the dock, but the window remains (with a beachball, if I mouse over it). It's using no CPU, but I want it to go away.
Is there something stronger than ...
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App or script to monitor/log processes starting and stopping?
I want to be able to start an app or script, leave it running for a few hours, then come back and see a log of what processes started and stopped in that time. This is not the same as Activity Monitor ...
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Is there a htop-on-linux like alternative for top / Activity Monitor on OS X?
I'm looking for a better alternative for top. Both top and Activity Monitor are highly limited with regards to features. In particular, I'm interested in the following features:
Limit processes by ...
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How do I monitor the total physical and virtual memory usage of a process and all of its descendants?
From the command line, how would I get the total physical and virtual memory usage of a process and all of its descendants (not just 1st-level children)?
This is useful when you want to monitor the ...
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Where did the /proc directory go in Mountain Lion?
I used to find the location of cached flash videos by lsof | grep Flash, the result is something like this
Google 38571 lamnk 74u REG 1,2 156826302 37061768 /Users/lamnk/Library/Application ...
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Getting a list of currently running processes
I'd like to get a list of all the applications currently running on my machine using the command line. It should be similar to what you get when you open up Activity Monitor and choose to save the ...
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How can I remove remnant processes from deleted preference panes?
I discovered in Activity Monitor that I have several leftover processes running in the background that shouldn't be there anymore. I deleted these preference panes long ago with an application that ...
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Terminal in full screen mode: how do I recover from “cat /dev/random”
What are the ways I can regain control over my computer when I have terminal in full screen mode and type:
cat /dev/random
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Is there a way to switch to the selected process in activity monitor?
I'm wondering if there's a way to bring focus to a process that's in "activity monitor".
Specifically, I've got a bunch of Google Chrome processes and I'm trying to figure out which process ...
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What process is in charge of the background image on Mac OS?
I have a problem that occurs seemingly randomly on my Macbook Pro, 13" 2010, running 10.7. The background on the secondary screen (which is actually the laptop screen itself, the primary screen is a ...
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ps on remote Mac doesn't work
I have a Mac Mini (latest model I believe) running OS X 10.7 at a remote location that I can only access via SSH.
The problem is that the ps command* does not work. When I run it in any form, from ...
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Time machine backup is very slow (new TM drive and large amount of data)
I have data (mostly photos) on an external WD 2Tb drive (about 930gb)
I have just installed a 3Tb Lacie drive and want to use it as the TM drive to back up the external WD drive and the Mac HD (very ...
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Process list with name and VPRVT
Is there any way to get just name and VPRVT of running processes? Thanks
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applepushserviced and ocspd takes a lot of memory, is killing them safe?
I'm in my office and the the network access is limited, would this causing this two process taking too much memory?
I use my Mac mainly for developing, would it be safe to kill this two process?
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how to track the pid of a process using mDNSResponder?
I'm searching the right way to identify which pid/process ask to mDNSResponder to resolve dns query.
In other terms I want do identify which process do which dns query through mDNSResponder and in ...
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Why do httpd and mysqld processes not show up in Activity Monitor?
I'm running Mountain Lions built in Apache2 server. I have started the server and I can see the web pages but I can't see any httpd process in the Activity Monitor. Same goes for MySQL. I can't see ...
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What are only necessary processes (minimal set) for OS X work?
What are only necessary processes (minimal set) for OS X work?
What are the differences in the sets for different versions (Lion minimal set, Mountain Lion minimal set)?
What are the processes that ...
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Utility to warn when process takes 100% CPU for x minutes?
I run on battery a lot and occasionally a process/app will crash in the background and start sucking up 100% of one or more cores. That in turn burns my battery down way faster than normal. I used ...
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named (bind DNS) not quitting
I am trying to quit named, but it keeps popping up. I tried removing the configuration an key files, unloading it from launchd, you name it. Yet it keeps starting. How do I kill it permanently?
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How to fix ESET CyberSecurity 5 not starting up after first reboot?
Basic problem: the latest and greatest (for mac) from ESET does not start up automatically, and even a manual start results in only a process not doing anything (though not using CPU either).
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How can I tell what process a window belongs to?
Tonight I got this zombie dialog box:
The OK button is not clickable, and clicking the box does not bring it to the front. I believe it came from a SuperDuper! glitch, but if it's attached to a ...
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How can I unbind a UDP port that has no entry in lsof?
On my Mac, I'm having trouble with a UDP port (500) that is "already in use", but it doesn't have an associated process anymore.
sudo netstat -na | grep "udp4.*\.500\>"
shows
udp4 0 ...
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Automator background (watch me do)
Can I make watch me do it feature work in the background? so that it doesnt take my mouse controle.
