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Networked Activity Monitor for CPU monitoring?
I would like to track computer A's CPU (and maybe memory etc) usage on computer B in a GUI similar to that of Activity Monitor. Is that possible? Preferably a free solution. I have looked at SNMP but ...
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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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CPU and RAM usage statistics for iPhone/iOS (similar to Activity Monitor)?
Is there any (preferably free) way to view CPU and RAM usage by process (e.g. app) on iPhone without jailbreaking the device?
Activity Monitor on macOS displays
Process Name
% CPU (per core I believe)...
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"Usernoted" process eating all my cpu [duplicate]
What is this process and how can I get rid of it? I ran antivirus etc but without any success. Terminating it in the activity monitor won't change anything.
Sampling process 416 for 3 seconds with 1 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice results in frequent hangs and freezes in my mac
Update (2019): The issue still persits even in macOS Mojave, tried everything I could find, nothing seems to solve the issue as of yet!
Problem:
com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice hangs repeatedly ever ...
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Macbook performance issues with browsers
I have a MacBook Pro from 2013, and I'm having issues in both Chrome and Firefox - both are slowing down to a crawl, and when I check Activity Monitor I have multiple processes (in all the 'tabs' at ...
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Why is Adobe Acrobat using only one core for a heavy task, and how can I make it perform faster?
Adobe Acrobat is performing Optical Character Recognition on a document with thousands of pages. This is a heavy task which will take hours.
Activity Monitor tells me that Acrobat is only using one ...
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Why is Illustrator throttled to 2% speed when it's in the background?
I regularly run a .jsx script in Adobe Illustrator that saves a bunch of files in a particular format.
while Illustrator is the active app, running the script on 5 files takes 23 seconds.
When ...
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Safari shows blue dot below Dock icon though it's not in process table [duplicate]
Summary:
Safari is running according to the Dock (icon has dot below it, and right-click shows "Force Quit"); however Activity Monitor doesn't show it and ps -ef | grep -i saf returns nothing. ...
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Random extreme CPU spikes on random browser tasks
I've noticed that every once in a few days (sometimes daily) my CPU spikes to a 120% or such usage when any of my browsers are open.
The scenario is weird, today I was watching a movie using VLC ...
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What could cause swapping when there is no memory spike?
I had a performance issue recently, which I was able to capture in the Monitor. It looks like there was plenty of free memory, but then suddenly the graph goes red, with no real spiking.
Could this ...
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Activity Monitor lagging and requires force quit? [closed]
Activity Monitor itself, any time I open it, lags horribly and shows a spinning "beach ball." It continues to lag horribly until I right click on it in the Dock, wait several seconds for the context ...
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Activity Monitor is unuseable because it's freezing mouse cursor when launched
A weird problem started happening on my system in recent days (can't remember exactly). When I launch Activity Monitor, mouse pointer freezes and can't move normally until I kill Activity Monitor by ...
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How to force stop all the processing in the background (and map that command to a keyboard shortcut)
My Mac has been having a lot of issues lately. Most of them have to do with lagginess and the spinning beach ball appearing quite often, and staying there for a long time. If my Mac is so slow, there ...
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Is there a way to filter Activity Monitor by unresponsive applications?
It can sometimes be a slight nuisance to scroll through the whole list in Activity Monitor to find unresponsive applications – especially when this happens often and there's a lot of processes going ...
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MacBook gets heated up
I am running on macbook pro 2015. Since, few days, I have noticed a significant degradation in it's performance. Here is the screen shot of the activity Monitor. Can someone please help me on, how can ...
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Killing a dialog box that doesn't show up in the dock
There's lots of information out there about how to kill an application that's not responding. But what if I just have some dialog box that isn't clearly associated with any running application? In ...
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Why does Dashlane use so many ports?
I use Dashlane to store passwords, and I like it, but there's one problem I've had with it. I use Activity Monitor to see what's going on, and something strange has been happening with Dashlane lately....
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Acceptable CPU usage for 4 core 3.4gHz i7
Creating a kiosk application for the Mac and am testing performance and CPU usage.
The activity monitor shows a total of roughly 90 to 150% CPU usage for the always up, kiosk processes.
My first ...
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Macbook Pro Hangs/Freezes sometimes
I don't turn off my MacBook Pro very often, and sometimes it just freezes and restarts itself after a few seconds. Its very annoying, especially when I'm working on something. I contacted support a ...
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Looking for a free system monitoring tool [closed]
I'm looking for a system monitoring tool, preferably a free one. I don't care if it's an actual app or sits in my terminal.
Activity Monitor doesn't give me all the information I want at once.
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In Activity Monitor, is the percentage out of each core or out of each virtual core?
I have my new MacBook Pro with 2 cores.
However, the Activity Monitor shows me 4 “virtual” cores. (I don’t really know what a “virtual core” is.)
If the processor is running at maximum, what ...
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How to monitor CPU core usage?
I have a Macbook Pro 15" with the quad core i7. I am looking to see what if any performance decrease I could expect moving to a 13" Macbook Pro with a dual core i7. To that end I thought Activity ...
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Understanding active, inactive, free and swap memory allocation
this is a conceptual question that came up from an issue I have.
I've been monitoring memory usage with iStat Pro and Activity Monitor for some weeks, since my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.8.4 Mountain Lion ...
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How does 'stuck' (in results of 'top') relate to 'not responding' (in Activity Monitor), 'spin' or 'hang'?
In results of top commands, I sometimes see stuck.
Apple's top(1) OS X Manual Page does not explain this use of the word.
How, if it all, does stuck relate to the following?
not responding – may ...
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Alternative activity monitors for OS X?
I’m a bit intrigued by the new detailed activity monitors and progress indicators in Windows 8 (copying files, the task monitor, network activity, etc.) It got me thinking: surely there must be some ...
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Help identify what uses the CPU when the Activity Monitor list of all processes does not help
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After rebooting, and with only Activity Monitor open, my MacBook Pro (10.6, i7) shows a very high idle % (98% or higher) but then shortly after drops down to 40% - 50%.
In the Activity ...
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Mac app to show cumulative CPU usage?
Activity Monitor will show you how much CPU time the current instances of each process have taken. I want an app that will show the total CPU time all instances of each process have taken, so I can (...
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How do I tell what processes are driving I/O loads?
Something is driving a lot of Disk I/O on my system lately. I can see in ActivityMonitor that there are huge volumes of reads and writes every second. But none of the "normal" suspects are active when ...
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What does it mean when a %CPU exceeds (# of cores) x 100%?
Several responses to a question I asked earlier suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. Once the download had completed and the disk image was being verified, ...
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