OS X :: Two Dashboard Processes?
Dec 17, 2009why I have two processes running dashboard with the 64bit one needing significantly more RAM?
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MacBook Air :: Dashboard Widget Causes Error And Can't Get Dashboard To Stay Open?
May 11, 2012I put "levelwidget" on the dashboard - it is supposed to make a macbook into a Level. Sounded interesting...now I regret! The widget is corrupted and now when I try to open the dashboard it immediately closes and gives me an error message "you can't open the application motion because power pc applications are no longer supported" How do I delete this widget so I can open the dashboard. I've tried to look up the file, but can't seem to find dashboard widget files.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Deleting From Dashboard, Managing Dashboard?
Jun 14, 2012How do I delete from dashboard?
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ITunes, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X :: How Many Processes Are Getting Post And Pre SL
Aug 29, 2009Pre Snow Leopard I ran around 65~ processes
Post Snow Leopard, 63 processes
Take in account about 5-10 processes are my own. I thought SL removed a lot of useless processes. I will try a clean install and report back later.
OS X :: Unable To See Hidden Processes
Oct 19, 2010There is a process on my computer I know is running, but It doesn't show up in activity monitor.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Turn Off Unnecessary Processes?
May 9, 2008I am a windows dude, you can tell. I need to turn off unnecessary processes on a Mac. In "Windows", I would edit the startup processes... and in Computer admin, turn off all "services" I did not need.
What do I do on a Mac? I need it to be permanent, not temporary (like I know how to shut off iTunes helper for a session- I want it off after restarts, too.
Also, I want to pare this mac down to just the essentials- any advice for what to kill, and what I should not touch?
OS X :: How To Disable Startup Processes
Jul 24, 2010I would like to disable some processes from starting upon login, but can't figure out how. I am not referring to the Login Items of System Preferences>Accounts. I have checked /Library/StartupItems/ (empty), /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist (essentially empty), and ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist (which only contains the things that i do want, it matches my account preferences).
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Jul 31, 2010when i check activity monitor, i notice some processes or programs running that I had deleted. how do i get them to completely stop running when i reboot? it seems that there are some rogue background processes running.
View 5 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: See What Processes Are Using The Memory?
Apr 25, 2012I recently added more RAM to my system and I always keep Activity Monitor running with the memory usage icon on the Dock to see how much Lion and my programs use. I noticed that even several CS5 programs running at the same time won't use that much, the program I've seen uses the most is Aperture, using anywhere from 500MB on start to 2.5GB while viewing--not editing--photos.
My questions is, when my system is running normally it uses from a quarter to half the total memory available but just now it's using more than three quarters and it's running not even half programs I use everyday. I quickly added up the memory being used and it's just missing out A LOT. I'm adding a screenshot of Activity Monitor for you to see.
I now that restarting the system (or by using the purge command in Terminal) will free up memory but this really puzzles me and I'd really like to know what's happening--BTW, even though several GB are missing, the computer is nowhere nears slow, at least. Where are all the other processes using the rest of the memory? I'm using OS X 10.7.3 Server with 16GB of RAM on an iMac.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 27-inch Mid 2011.
OS X :: Couple Of Processes In Activity Monitor
Apr 4, 2009Noticed a couple of processes in activity monitor I don't think I have seen before. Authorizationhos and ocspd. if they also have them or if they are supposed to be there and what they do?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: It Freezes As It Can't Fork New Processes
Feb 15, 2012Been having a problem with my Mac Pro for some time, so decided to monitor and see what the cause is: I have been seeing a lot of this in kernel.log Feb 15 02:25:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: proc: table is full And Also this:
Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_allocate_cluster - send HI_WAT_ALERT
Feb 15 01:33:20 wamphyrii kernel[0]: macx_swapon FAILED - 12
Feb 15 01:39:24 wamphyrii kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: System is out of paging space.
So, i ran a cron job every 10 minutes to try and find out if i have something that is continuoulsy forking new processes. At the time of my latest crash I had over 700 processes like this:
14885 322 0 1:21AM ?? 0:00.01 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Resources/logoutHelp er 502
99 of these:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent
[code]....
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: See Video Processes In It?
May 23, 2012Where in Leopard 10.6.8 can I see running processes, or something interfering with iSight camera being engaged in Skype video call? I have theory that some other process in my Mac is trying to use camera and that freezes existing video. My theory has a problem since on my other iMac video never starts. Spinning white wheel is there forever, for duration of conversation.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 more iMacs, 3 x MacBooks, MacMini
Mac Pro :: Activity Monitor Shows No Unusual Processes?
Sep 22, 2010repeated disk access in my 2010 Mac Pro, even when it's otherwise idle. Activity Monitor shows no unusual processes, and I've disabled Spotlight indexing.
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Nov 7, 2010Randomly on my computer I noticed very high CPU use while the computer was otherwise idle. I have narrowed it to the launchd and syslogd processes, taking up roughly 85% of my CPU for no good reason. I do have a TM backup that I could restore from, but that takes a while, so is there any way I could make them stop? (Already tried quitting from Activity monitor, it simply restarted my computer and didn't fix the problem)EDIT- Nevermind, it just went away on its own. Weird.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Makewhatis And Find Processes In Activity Monitor
Nov 29, 2008I just woke up my MacBook Pro, and the HD sounded like there was something going on. It wasn't the indexing, so I opened up Activity Monitor and found something taking 10-30% CPU called "find". It was under several instances of "sh", and I think it's first parent was "locate.code" or something like that. Anyway, after a while I opened Activity Monitor again, and the "find" process was replaced by something called "makewhatis". It disappeared almost a second after I opened Activity Monitor. Obviously it's just part of the system, but what exactly do these processes do?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Processes Taking Up All CPU On Blazing Fast IMac
Mar 19, 2009A long time ago this other process, called Safari, but with the default application icon, started using up 70% of my CPU. I know they are different processes because: I can see both processes at the same time in the processes list when Safari is open, it still takes up 70-100% even when the REAL Safari is closed. Also, no matter what it open, Now there's two! You know how the root application reports crashes? Well, apparently it's reporting millions. It's using 70%-100% of my CPU too! A bunch of other root programs are taking 20%-30%, so that totals up to over 250% of my CPU!
View 7 Replies View RelatedIMac :: Computer Was Not Doing Anything Other Than Running Normal Processes?
Nov 8, 2009Safari locking up originally. I would get beach balls pretty often, and simple tasks like opening a new tab would take a long time. One day last week I noticed it took like 30 minutes to index in spotlight..just random weird things like that.Yesterday, I got home and the computer had the little loading icon on the middle of my desktop and was completely locked up. The computer wasnt doing anything other than running normal processes.
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Apr 2, 2012How do I find what processes are running in the background?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X Technologies :: Unix Processes Go To Sleep Before Completing
Apr 18, 2012I regularly run unix commands remotely, or on network-attached drives - exampels are rsync; rm (-r) etc.
For the following assume its on a NAS drive, mounted to 'Volumes/drive"
On large jobs, i find that these processes do two things that i cant explain, nor do i like:
1. they seem to sorta slow down and stall occasionally. I knwo that's vague
2. they stop running when the computer goes to sleep
Now, the real questyion is, since an active proces is underway, why did it go to sleep?
I do have "wake on network activity" checked.
I was able to mostly eliminate this problem by turning off "sleep after X minutes" and moving the energy saver slider to "never"
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Mac Pro :: Lion: Restart And Shut Down Processes Hang?
Apr 28, 2012After "upgrading" to Lion, my MacPro refuses to complete either a Restart or Shut Down cycle. How can I discover what is hanging up the process? System: MacPro1,1; 8GB RAM, OS X 10.7.3, 4x2TB internal drives, all software updates applied.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Technologies :: View System Processes In Terminal?
Jun 13, 2012Is there a way to view system processes in terminal in realtime, similar in fashion to how POST processes are displayed?
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
MacBook Air :: Background Processes Taking Up Huge CPU Resources?
May 13, 2012I recently reinstalled Lion on my Air to clean up a few issues, but it seems to have created new ones. This is what I see at the top of Activity Monitor pretty much constantly now.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X Yosemite :: How To Stop Two Processes That Are Running In Activity Monitor
Dec 3, 2014how do i stop two processes that are running in Activity Monitor took one out of trash and it says preparing to move desktop still running with another one been running for hrs now want to stop these.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
OS X :: Stopping Startup Processes That Are Not Under The System Preferences Users Panel
Feb 21, 2010I use the latest macos on a late 2009 mini.
I use a program called smart response. It drives electronic whiteboards and a wireless response system.
I use it at home, and I never actually connect my computer to the hardware. I use it to prepare stuff at home.
Is there a way to stop these processes from loading? I can kill them, but as a mac os newbie, I have no idea how to take control of them in the mac.
The windows equivalent would have been to go and disable the startup process under the administrative tab in the control panel.
Safari :: Launches With Spinning Ball And Full Fans And 100% CPU Web Processes
Feb 16, 2012Exactly the same issue on Macbook Air and new iMac both running Safari 5.1 and Lion 10.7.3
When I open Safari it does not open a page, it just shows a spinning beach ball and shortly after the fans kick in and the activity monitor shows 1 webprocess at 99 - 100% or sometimes 2 web processes at 50/50% all coming from the User. When I inspect the process it says it's "Parent Process (Safari 450)"
When I quit safari the web processes stay at 100% and will only stop when I quit them in activity monitor. I have reset Safari but no joy. Firefox etc works fine. The only update I ran was a 1Password update but they say it's not them.
MacBook Pro :: Kill Multiple Processes Related To Single Command?
Mar 25, 2012I selected 48 folders in Finder and pressed Getinfo which opened 48 windows reluctantly. How to close all 48 windows using activity monitor. Problem is that activity monitor does not show any PID with getinfo name. Mine is OSX Lion 10.7.3 (MBP 2011)
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: SystemUIServer, UserEventAgent And Loginwindow Processes Cause Memory Loss?
Apr 30, 2012everytime i start my machine the three processes start immediatly to raise to something like 1gb (each!). So far i tried
-resetting SMC, PRAM, NVRAM
-repair disk permissions
-setting volume to boot from
-deleted the com.apple.loginwindow.plist and loginwindow.plist
and i have the newest version of lion installed. i havent used the computer all the weekend and when i turned it on yesterday the problem appeared
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MacBook
Pro
MacBook Pro :: Random Processes Appearing And Disappearing In Activity Monitor?
Jun 1, 2012My MacBook Pro continues to show random unexplainable processes in the Activity Monitor window. Nothing seems to be wrong with any aspect of the laptop and functions correctly?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
IMac :: Long Processes For Video Editing - Importing - Exporting - Stabilization?
Oct 21, 2009Finally I will replace an old white core duo IMAC that we use in our house. Besides the basic stuff like doing kids homework, my main intensive use is to use imovie for family video editing. I have a HD sony camcorder and with my current mac its impossible to work. Now with the new imacs I would like to know what option will be better for those long processes in imovie (importing, exporting, stabilization, etc). better processor: core 2 duo 3.06 or i5 more memory: 4 vs 8 gb better graphics: 4670 vs 4850.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMac Mini :: System Hangs At Gray Screen On Shut Down / Beach Ball Delaying Certain Processes
Sep 1, 2009I have the 2.53ghz with 4gigz of Ram MacMini from Xmas 2009.A few of you know that I had been trying out different SSD's before finally jumping on with OWC 60gig SSD. I've had it for about 2 months now and it works great except I've recently been having my computer freeze and the beach ball of death appears constantly when on Safari and sometimes iMovie. After shutting down the computer manually, sometimes booting up will leave me at the grey screen for minutes before i shut it down and wait maybe 30 mins before i fire it up again, which usually works 9/10 times.
I also noticed the beach ball delaying certain processes like loading Safari or a webpage. For example, I have my OWC External hooked up via FireWire800 with just my music and videos, however occasionally if im browsing thru websites or loading a program it'll cycle the external and have the beachball as if trying to load something before proceeding. It is more an annoyance than a problem.
I ran disk utility on all my drives as well as the Apple Hardware Test CD to see if maybe my Logic Board was the problem. I did the general test as well as the indepth test, both show negative signs of a problem.Can anyone shed some light on what could be the problem?Should I put the factory drive back in and take it to Apple to run their diagnostic test?Could the SSD be failing? (I could RMA it, but didn't know if its an Apple issue vs OWC)
