activity monitor

I'm having this issue where word is draining my new Macbook Air 15's battery like crazy. I'm attaching a screenshot of the activity monitor here but I'm not sure how to exactly read it? I just know that my battery drained from 86% to 72% in less than an hour. I'm just using word and don't have...

Hi all, Never paid too much attention to the activity monitor but recently I noticed a process called “remoted” (Remote Service Discovery or something similar), under “Network”. Every few seconds it sends and receives small kB sized packets. Since I have disabled ALL sharing options, shouldn’t...

(reposted from my blog) Older versions of macOS run much smoother, even when just idling ! My 2019 macbook pro 15 felt a bit sluggish with macOS 12.6.3 Monterey, and had overheating problems whenever it did something a bit more complex then browsing the internet. (Sometimes not even that...

I am trying to figure out how much RAM I use, by looking at the activity monitor. I am on an i7 32GB MacBook. The activity monitor tells me I am using 20gb of ram and 14gb of app memory right now (and most of the time). There is no swap and pressure is green. As I am already at 14gb of app...

MBP late 2018. i9 + eGPU.Monterey, 12.3.1 I'm stumped here. PMset (power management) is off the charts for the last 3+ months. At random times (and OFTEN) it's running at 90%+ of the CPU. It'll launch, run high, terminate and relaunch. I've removed everything, did an SMC and the PRAM resets...

Hi... I am new to this forum and definitely not a geek. However I watch my activity monitor consistently and have noticed the disc reads/writes are sooo fast, to the tune of 30GB+ in 36 hours. Is that normal? I can't find anyone whose iMac or MBP can go that fast. And for what reason? CPU usage...

Mac expert sleuths needed. I have a 2017 27" iMac with 24g RAM and 2tb fusion drive. The latest OS is installed, which is 11.5. About once or twice a year for three to four days, this machine slows down to the point it becomes unusable. Activity Monitor constantly shows high kernel_task...

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Hi guys. I bought a low-tier MacBook Pro M1. After a couple of days of indexing etc, I was expecting the battery to last way longer. Here's my setup and daily use: - It is connected to an external HD monitor through a usb-c -to-HDMI adaptor, as well as an external mouse via USB. - Laptop's...

For several months now Activity Monitor Disk View, Network View and Memory View do not update the process list pane. CPU View updates as expected. I logged in as "guest" and noticed that Activity Monitor works as expected in all views. I'm wondering if I need to reset my SMC or nvram. I...

I hope someone can help me out with this. I have set up my photo library on an external drive that syncs to iCloud when I open the Photos app. Often times it doesn't start syncing by itself, so I found the very helpful tip to close Photos, quit certain processes in the Activity Monitor (see...

Greetings. Did a clean install of macOS Catalina on my Late 2017 27'' iMac and my Activity Monitor takes around four (4) seconds to launch. It was happening in 10.25.0 and still happening in 10.15.2. If I look in console I see this: default 21:12:36.586163+0300 Activity Monitor Synchronize...

Had a quick question that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm not too skilled with macs, having primarily used PC's in the past. I was cleaning out some junk files using Dr. Cleaner and a cache folder came up labeled "Anomoean". I looked in the activity monitor, and saw a process labeled...

hi i have noticed an excessive cpu consume of activity monitor the process "activity monitor" uses always at least 10% or 15% of my cpu , when my imac is idle sometime jump to 40% of my cpu outside activity monitor , all the processes are around 0.4% or 0.9% of cpu only i set refresh every 5...

I switched to the Apple Watch from a Fitbit Blaze. The thing I miss most about my Fitbit is the way it automatically tracked and logged exercise by what I was doing. Walking outside, running on an elliptical, cycling etc are all automatically logged and counted towards your exercise goals. They...

Greetings, I am running the latest update of El Capitan (on a 500 GB SSD) on a Mac Mini Late 2009 with 8 GB RAM. El Cap is the end of the line for this machine. When I boot from yesterday morning's backup of my startup disk, at bootup the App Memory number in Activity Monitor is 1.02 GB with...

My iMac has become extremely slow. It was suggested that I look at my Activity Monitor to see what's running in the background. Only problem is I can't find the Activity Monitor. I even used "spotlight search" and nothing was found. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hello, When I run the activity monitor, my memory pressure seems to be running high. There are many "Google Chrome Helpers" running and I don't know what that means. After closing many tabs, my Macbook is not lagging nearly as much, but it is still in the yellow zone (as opposed to red, or...

Hi everyone! My home data consumption have went thru the roof for the past 2 months, and I have finally tracked down (using the Traffic Analyser from the Router) the culprit to be the additional iMac which was introduced to my home at about the same time. Its my first Mac OS - which I...

MacBookPro 2009 model 8GB Ram fans have been cleaned and activity monitor looks alright (sometimes a peak, but not for long)- but still heat is by times (very) high what could be the problem?