Questions tagged [activity-monitor]
macOS' task manager utility application. It is used to perform different tasks on computer processes, as well as monitor system resource usage.
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How do I restart Kerberos
What OS process can I kill or force quit to terminate Kerberos? It's gotten into some bad state where choosing Sign in only brings up an empty white box (missing the normal prompts inside).
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"Anthony Gray" app runs in background. Where is it? What is it?
I have an app called "Anthony Gray" with permissions to run in Background.
But it's not present with this name in the Applications folder or htop.
Is there another way to know where it is ...
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Why would web page process continue to show up in Activity Monitor after quitting the web page?
Running Big Sur on a 2017 Intel iMac, Activity Monitor shows a process for each web page tab open in Safari. Normally these processes end when I close that tab.
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https://support.apple.com
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Get notified when something hits high % CPU in Activity Monitor?
I wonder how can I let the Activity Monitor notify me when something hits a high CPU percentage (like 80-100%)? Sometimes when I open some app (e.g. Mail) and then close the window, the app is just ...
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How do I dedicate more of my machines resources to a specific task?
I don't know how FileVault even got turned on in my 2012 MacBook Pro running MacOS Catalina.. But it's been trying to do its initial encryption for 4 days now, over the past 20 hours I have simply let ...
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What does the "Restricted" column mean in Activity Monitor?
What does the "Restricted" column mean in Activity Monitor? This column can be enabled by right-clicking the column titles.
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Unable to stop Process "idleassetsd" from consuming infinite bandwidth on MacOS Ventura & Sonoma
Unable to stop the process "idleassetsd" to consume internet bandwidth, While force quitting the process it starts consuming the bandwidth again, Nothing is working to stop it Observed under ...
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"financed" process in Activity Monitor
I noticed a process in Activity Monitor called financed. If I turn on the Kind column it shows "Apple" but so do all the other processes. If I use the hierarchical view no parent or children ...
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The "bird" process keeps running at high % CPU and writes lots of data. How do I fix this? [duplicate]
I'm running macOS 13.4 (22F66) on a MacBook Pro 16" (2019) and the process bird (which seems to be iCloud-related) keeps running at very high CPU utilization. It also makes Xcode unresponsive ...
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Activity tracking when not wearing Apple Watch
Once in a while, I eschew my Apple Watch in favor of something else. On those days, I have no tracking of activities. However, iPhone supports at least some activity tracking on its own (specifically ...
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macOS alternative for /sys/block/*/stat to get read and written sectors or bytes
I am searching for an alternative of Linux /sys/block/*/stat for macOS to get the number of sectors (or Bytes) read and written since system start for each drive.
Native commands like iostat -I give ...
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Activity Monitor's Process Name connection to each software
I have Activity Monitor open to check how much memory is being used, and the main part I usually check is the bottom where it mentions how many GBs have been used. However, with the ability to stop it,...
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all process are in sleeping in top command for a couple of days
I am seeing All the process are in "sleeping" state, What is the process thats causing all the issue.
CPU is not used much, 4GB memory is used up showing in activity monitor. If you could ...
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macOS is writing 32GB of data during every boot, on new installs of Big Sur and Monterey
I have an issue where brand new installations, both minutes old and weeks old of Big Sur and Monterey (not tried other major releases) are writing exactly 32GB of data to the SSD boot drive during ...
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GPU-specific stats/view on Apple Silicon
On Apple silicon Macs, how can stats like frequency and utilization particular to GPUs be observed?
Activity Monitor gives a nice graph on Activity Monitor's CPU History screen.
Activity Monitor's ...
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Is my 12-hour power too high?
In Activity Monitor, I'm seeing this:
Is 1k/900 too much power? I believe I know what is causing it-- but will this increase my power bill?
Thanks.
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What is KernelEventAgent in Activity Monitor?
A process called 'KernelEventAgent' is using up all my CPU. I have to force quit it all the time because otherwise everything else slows down..
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Unaccounted bandwidth usage in activity monitor
Here is a screenshot of Activity Monitor network usage tab. Look at the Data Received total at bottom, and then look at the process amounts in the list on top. It doesn't add up.
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A rogue process heats up my Mac - how to find and remove this program?
A year ago I got a used Mindstorms EV3 set, fired it up and played around with my son. I installed a setup where we could write Python scripts to control the robot. The connection to the robot used ...
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Activity Monitor does not have the "Kind" column
Activity Monitor doesn't show the "Kind" column, and does not give me the option to enable it. It's not in the list of columns I can enable.
My friend's M1 Mac has the Kind column in the ...
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What is `oahd-helper` and why is it eating my CPU?
I noticed today that when changing SIP mode (either enabling or disabling), upon reboot my macOS Monterey CPU usage is heavily consumed by a series of oahd and oahd-helper processes.
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What's the unit of "12 hr power" in the energy section of activity monitor?
In the "energy" section of activity monitor, there is a heading "12 hr power".
Is there a the unit of this quantity so that I can convert it to watts?
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How to poll an app / process CPU utilization levels with fine granularity in Terminal?
I have a particularly problematic process in macOS that has a CPU utilization of 50-100% rather consistently. The process seems to have a somewhat high variability depending on several variables.
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Activity Monitor showing less Physical Memory than actually installed
for some reason on my new M1 Max Mac Studio, Activity Monitor is showing 16 GB of Physical Memory when there is in fact, 64 GB installed. The other places I've checked (About This Mac, System Report, ...
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How do you interpret "12 hrs power" in Activity Monitor?
When hovering over the 12 hrs power column header in the Energy tab of Activity Monitor, it says:
Average Energy Impact over the last 12 hours or since the Mac started. Lower is better.
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How can I see the NPU cores?
NPU cores don't show up in system information or Activity Monitor. Is there a way to see their utilization -- something like nvidia-smi or nv-top?
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Unopened app taking 95%+ of battery power
I have a 2015 MBP on MacOS 11.6 and it recently has been running out of power quickly. When I click the battery icon on the top bar, it shows Atom is drawing significant power.
This is weird because ...
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macOS: A CoreServicesUIAgent Verifying ...dylib Popup keeps popping up every time
A popup keeps popping up every time on my system and looks like this:
It does not go away when I click on the 'x' and it does not progress. It hinders everything by keeping itself on top of all ...
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If my MBA has 4 cores, why does About This Mac say it has 2?
In About This Mac, it says that my Mac has a dual-core CPU, but Activity Monitor says that I have 4.
I also checked this in Terminal with sysctl -n hw.ncpu but it also gave 4. If I have 4 cores, why ...
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Activity Monitor Showing Nothing
My activity monitor no longer shows me anything after my computer automatically restarted.
Previously I tried some tricks to reset the activity monitor such as this Activity Monitor columns missing
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VS Code uses high CPU even if it is closed
VS Code takes 100% CPU usage even it is not open. I ran the ps aux | grep PID command to check the details but can't understand anything. Here's the output:
tawhid 27099 100.0 0.1 447352160 ...
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What are the CarbonComponentScanner and VisualizerService-x86 (Music) processes?
In Activity Monitor.app I've wanted to find out what are the x86, Intel processes that I still have on my Apple Silicon MacBook.
The only two x86 processes are CarbonComponentScanner and ...
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Why is htop and Activity Monitor showing different even when running htop as sudo?
I have installed htop using homebrew on an M1 Macbook Air. Below, one can see that the used memory reported by htop and Activity Monitor are different.
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Can't force quit application even in Activity Monitor (AnyTransToolHelpers)
I installed AnyTrans. I uninstalled it soon after. But, I can't seem to get my mac to stop running some helper that seems to somehow be leftover.
I have tried:
going into activity monitor, selecting ...
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How to use Activity Monitor to view Network activity
My Activity Monitor is showing that something is downloading, I can the download activity on the graph and the overall speed is shown as 'Data received/sec. But I'm stuck trying to figure out which ...
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Search shortcut and menu options not working in Activity Monitor
Note: Why is search in Activity Monitor disabled? is a similar but different issue that doesn't address the one here (I tried switching views to and from Hierarchically.
The command ⌘-F shortcut doesn'...
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Why does the Activity Monitor Battery graph and Battery system preference show different charging history?
In What are the green columns/lines mean in Activity Monitor - Energy - Battery?, the answer tells that green shading in the Activity Monitor battery graph indicates charging time.
However, the ...
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macOS Finder Sync Extension multiple running processes in Activity Monitor
On my Mac I use several applications with Finder Sync Extensions that provide Finder badges, sidebar icons, and toolbar buttons within Finder.
I have enabled each Finder Sync Extension in:
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Understanding the activity monitor of mac
I am trying to understand each field of activity monitor to understand my process usage.
But I am not able to wrap my heads around few things.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
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Is there a way to find processes that are "Not responding" using Terminal?
Activity Monitor can indicate processes that are Not responding:
Is there a way to find these processes using command line? Such as with ps, ...
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Why is Activity Monitor consistently using high CPU %?
I've had Activity Monitor open for a couple of minutes now and it is hovering between 30-70% cpu use. With a quad-core CPU I think that is somewhat misleading but even so, should the system monitoring ...
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Why are there so many valid users on macOS?
When going through Activity Monitor, I see many different users (other than my own account and the root account) responsible for individual processes. Why are the processes divided among many users ...
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Why do numbers in Activity Monitor never add up?
For example, at the bottom it shows "System: 1.45%, User: 1.55%, Idle: 97%".
Yet in the process list I see under "% CPU" Activity Monitor 20%, WindowServer 13%, Firefox 10%, ...
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Why are "spindump" and "sandboxd" eating up all my CPU?
I am using MacOS Big Sur 11.3 on a 2019 MacBook Pro. Recently, I started noticing that some programs (specifically MATLAB) have been running really slow, the cursor and mouse are lagging, etc. ...
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What is this qemu-system-aarch64 process and why is it using almost 3 GB of RAM on my M1 Mac
I am on my M1 Mac mini (Big Sur 11.3.1). I got a message that I am running out of RAM and should close some apps. I saw this process called qemu-system-aarch64 that takes up to 3GB of RAM. I don't ...
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Mac OS Big Sur | kernal_task usage is 500% when connected to external monitor
I'm facing a system lag issue whenever I connect to my external monitor, even though there is no user process.
I have already gone through some of the answers in the stack exchange and did two things ...
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TextEdit not responding after zooming in
Recently, i noticed TextEdit on macos bigsur(M1 chip) taking more than 3GB ram and is not responding after I try zooming in.
Even though my .txt wasn't very big(just 4KB, barely 50 lines of text). ...
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How can I monitor Neural Engine usage on Apple Silicon M1?
I'm now successfully training my TensorFlow (2.5.0-rc1) models in my new Macbook Air M1 (yay!). But, for performance optimization and out of sheer curiosity, I'd like to monitor usage and performance ...
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What built-in utilities are available in macOS for managing/monitoring process/disk/memory/IO/file?
I think Activity Monitor can be used for managing/monitoring processes, but I am confused about the other four: disk/memory/IO/file.
Are all these four functions be managed/monitored out by Disk ...
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What is the ApplicationsStorageExtension process on macOS?
I heard my MacBook Air's fan running loudly, so I opened Activity Monitor. I see that a process named "ApplicationsStorageExtension" has a high number for % CPU. How do I kill that process?
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