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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Macbook Pro 16" overheating external display and no scaling option
This is just with the monitor connected running in mirror mode, just one safer tab opened.
This with the closed lid in clamshell mode running colder, but so tiny image at 2k resolution (or blurry at ...
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A process called “accountsd” has over 200% of CPU usage - MacBook Air 2020 [duplicate]
Apparently for no reason this process takes a lot of cpu resources and makes my mac unusable(battery drops, overheating and performance drops).
I upgraded the operating system to the latest version ...
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How to display network statistics in the menu bar?
I already know how to view network activity using Activity Monitor. But today I saw someone with network statistics displayed in the menu bar:
How is this achieved?
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Does this usage pattern warrant getting more memory?
So this is about an old MacBook Pro - just old enough to have user replaceable memory.
The memory usage usually stays in the green, but the size of the Cached Files + Memory Used usually adds up to ...
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Figure out used swap from command line?
When looking at the Activity Monitor it says that I am using 459.5MB of swap.
I would like to figure this number out from the command line.
I have been able to duplicate all the other memory numbers ...
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Types of memory: Why do private and shared not add up to real memory?
Answers to previous questions define types of real memory used by a process roughly as follows:
Real memory: the amount of physical memory allocated to a process (eg the number of pages)
Real shared ...
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Per-process CPU doesn't add up to total in Activity Monitor?
Observing Activity Monitor, the per-process CPU is often very different to the total CPU.
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Here the sum of individual processes is > 50%, yet the total said to be (100 - 91.43) 8.57%.
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ApplePushService Segmentation Fault (with com.apple.apsd process threads)
I'm having a problem with ApplePushService and a Segmentation Fault (with apsd process threads).
Is this some possible iCloud authentication problem?
Does anyone have any ideas about this?
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Siri Accounts Faults in MAC OS Catalina (10.15.6): (Process Demon Faults: accountsd + deleted + locationd) VERY slow CPU!
I'm seeing a common Mac OS Catalina (10.15.6) fault with accountsd/deleted and Siri? (com.apple.siri.e)? It seems to be extremely serious! Does anyone know the cause or solution for this? My ...
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Macbook Pro fan running full speed, activity monitor shows no computationally intensive applications
My 2018 Macbook pro 15 inch fan is running at full speed all the time. I checked activity monitor and my idle was >95%. If this is a hardware problem, is there any way to fix it without opening up ...
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Touch Bar Server shows up in Activity Monitor, but no Touch Bar on my Mac
I have an early 2013 13" Retina MacBook Pro. I was checking Activity Monitor and noticed that TouchBarServer is usually at the top of the list for both CPU and Memory. Mind you, the 2013 MacBook ...
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High CPU usage for WindowServer process in Activity monitor
On my Macbook Pro 13" 2020 model, WindowServer is constantly eating away 20% to 40% CPU.
Tried the usual recommendations, but none help. (reduce transparency, display scaling etc)
Also tried to ...
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In Tiger's Activity Monitor, what is “% Nice” CPU?
I installed OS X Tiger in an emulator, to learn more about how OS X's UI has evolved over the years.
I noticed that Activity Monitor measures the percentage of CPU that is "Nice", in addition to the ...
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How to see root user processes in Activity Monitor?
I am wondering how to show the root user processes in Activity Monitor. On my mac, my personal user and root user show up, but on my sister's mac, only her personal user processes show up in Activity ...
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remindd sometimes spikes over 100-200% CPU usage
Over the past few months, I have experienced my MacBook turning on its fans because of high CPU usage. When that happens, I see that a process called remindd is using 100-300% CPU for a long time, ...
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I have dual monitors for my MacBook Pro. Stop Automatically shift to one of the monitor?
I set up my dual monitors connecting to Macbook Pro and unchecked "the Display has separate spaces" option so that I can use the monitors in a continuous fashion. The two monitors are stacked up (one ...
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What is kernel_task reading and writing?
On my machine, kernel_task has a very large number of reads and writes compared to my usage. I spend almost all my time online on google chrome.
Over the past month, Activity Monitor shows ...
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Is there a tool for Monitoring IP addresses and network activity on MAC OS - similiar to resource monitor on windows 10
On windows 10, there is a program called Resource Monitor. Under the network tab, if I select an application, I can see all the external IP addresses that application is connected to.
Is there ...
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process investigation (wackly ruby)
I develop ruby on rails apps. Today I noticed a bunch of unexpected ruby processes taking up a bunch of memory. So I decided to investigate. The results of the investigation are sort of inconclusive ...
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What is could spawn tons of processes called AppleUserHIDDrivers over and over
I see 18 instances of the process AppleUserHIDDrivers running on my MacOS, according to the activity monitor, belonging to the user _driverkit. The parent process is listed as launchd. What could be ...
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Some applications are reporting different stats than Activity Monitor?
So here's something I'm curious about:
When running a full project in Ableton Live (music production), I am (when setting sample rate to the max) getting get drop outs and stuttering. This is as ...
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Activity Monitor No Longer displays columns
I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) running Catalina (10.15.3). I can't remember when I first noticed it, but for a while now, I cannot sort Activity Monitor's columns. This is essentially what it looks ...
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How does Watch determine distance walked if Location Services are off?
Apple Watch 3 (newly purchased) and iPhone XR
I rarely enable Location Services on my phone. When I go for an ‘Outdoor Walk’ the ‘Activity’ app tells me my step count and the distance covered. If ...
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Extreme slowing down of MacBook Pro due to pkd process
I am debugging this issue for several days now, but just realized that a certain pkd process is responsible for extremely slowing down my MacBook Pro. When I kill this process, everything works fine. ...
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Prevent a process from being killed by any user mode means
I use Freedom to help me stay focused while working. Sometimes I will be so disillusioned with my work, that I will go to such lengths as to try and kill the process from the terminal.
I'd like to ...
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OSX 10.15.3 Activity Monitor GPU History not painting with VSCode Code Helper (GPU)
It seems the GPU monitor doesn't update, except for a spike when you fire it up for the first time. Is this a local config issue or a known shortcoming of the VSCode app? While this might be a ...
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How to tell which Safari tab is consuming the most memory
I'm on 10.15.2 Catalina, and my fans have currently been running steady for hours. I opened Activity Monitor, am viewing the CPU tab, and sorting by % CPU. Safari is at 102.6 as I type this.
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What are the numerous 'cron' tasks in Activity Monitor memory section? [duplicate]
I just took a look at my activity monitor (to see if I could optimize my RAM), and saw at the bottom of the memory section a huge amount of root tasks simply titled 'cron' (screenshot below).
They ...
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Process called “ItYoingm” using over 90% CPU and over 106GB memory - root user
I have recently downloaded Catalina on my Macbook pro and every now and again my fan goes into overdrive, even when I'm hardly using any programs.
I opened my Activity Monitor and there is a process ...
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kernel_task eating a lot of CPU on mojave
I see the kernel_task had occured in OS before mojave.
https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/kernel_task
I am wondering whether I can just remove /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily....
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How to terminate multiple applications via Activity Monitor
I'm looking at Activity Monitor showing me multiple running processes. I want to terminate multiple processes from the list in one go.
I've tried highlighting the processes but nothing shows up when ...
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What's a task-manager lighter than Activity-Monitor? [duplicate]
Apple Activity Monitor is nice and simple enough, but I tend to keep it open all the time in order:
to have a CPU monitor always visible in the Dock without any click/gesture (and without wasting ...
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top alternative for GPU usage and networking
I want to get all the info from Activity Monitor in the terminal (because I am executing these commands in macOS app). It also has to terminate - e.g. for top I can write:
top -pid <somepid> -...
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Time formatting in Activity Monitor
What's the time formatting in the CPU Time column?
so for example 1:07.75
Is it hh:mm.ss?
or is it 1min 7sec 75ms
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Accuracy of “Data Sent/sec” in Activity Monitor on MacOS Catalina
I have a 2018 MacBook Pro i7 running MacOS Catalina 10.15.3. I'm uploading a 4.88 GB video to YouTube, using the YouTube Studio web interface in Google Chrome 79. My MacBook Pro is connected to my 5 ...
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In macOS Activity Monitor, why is “Applications in last 12 hours” grayed out / disabled?
Any idea why the "Applications in last 12 hours" is disabled in the "Activity Monitor"?
At one point it appeared briefly -- but after days of using it, it has since disappeared.
Using macOS 10.15.2....
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Activity Monitor columns missing
My Activity Monitor does not have any columns that show more details about each process.
I've already ensured that under "View" in the menu bar, the relevant columns are enabled.
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Is there a way to “throttle” MacPorts?
I have an unusual request.
I'd like to slow down MacPorts. It sometimes uses a ton of CPU resources, and rather than having it run at full speed, I'd like it to run slowly and in the background.
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High memory usage on MacOS Catalina
I noticed that most of the time, Activity Monitor tells me that memory used is above 10 Gb (out of 16). But the processes listed doesn't seem to consume as much memory.
Here are screenshots :
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Unknown Binary in Application Samples
I recently started sampling applications that freeze on my machine. I have an iMac with 8 cores and 32GB of RAM running Catalina 10.15.1 fully patched. It's far from resource constrained yet certain ...
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Activity Monitor data, in recent history?
Lately my MacBook Pro has a lot of moments where it slows down for a few seconds, stops responding to keys and touchpad, displays a rainbow wheel of doom, and then comes back. If I go to the Activity ...
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sysmond using 100% CPU usage, but only while on the Memory tab
I used to have no issues with this, but all of a sudden sysmond is using 100% CPU while I have Activity Monitor set to the Memory tab. sysmond runs normally while in any other tab (CPU, Energy, Disk, ...
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“cron” processes spawning and piling up, but no crontab
EDIT: I solved this, so see below for my own answer. While the bounty asks for a fix to the problem, I'd like to award it to someone who can explain why a cron process that ran for 6 years over ...
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Over 550 processes shown in Activity Monitor
I'm running High Sierra on my older iMac. I opened Activity Monitor and clicked on the Memory tab to temporarily monitor the Memory Pressure. The memory pressure was fine but I noticed Activity ...
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“cron” processes piling up
I have cronjobs doing various cleanup tasks:
$ crontab -l
0 * * * * find ${HOME}/Downloads -depth 1 -d -mtime +12h -exec /usr/local/bin/trash {} \;
* * * * * /usr/bin/defaults delete com.apple....
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Activity Monitor doesn't show all CPU usage
This seems to be new behavior in macOS Catalina. While compiling a large C project with make -j8, the CPU is obviously pegged at 100%, but Activity Monitor doesn't show all the busy processes. I ...
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What is the name of the Automator application process?
I want to kill the process of the Automator application, but i can't find the name of it in the activity monitor.
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Mysterious process 'phonetism' eats CPU and vanishes
My 2015 MacBook running Mojave has been acting strange lately, especially whilst browsing. Sometimes Safari will freeze up, or reload a page out of the blue. I can feel my computer struggling, so I'm ...
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Activity Monitor - How to view multiple panels at the same time
I'm currently trying to view multiple metrics at the same time using Activity Monitor app (yes I have tried top, htop, etc but I was wondering if this is possible with Activity Monitor).
Fx. looking ...
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getting some information from activity monitor in mac pro
I am running a code in Ampl I want to make sure my code is running still ,( I can not see it from software). in activity monitor the %cpu for this software is 99.6 .
Is this mean the code is running?...
