-as of [28 FEBRUARY 2024]–
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*SET [ACTIVITY MONITOR] TO OPEN ON ‘START UP’*
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*ACCESS THE APP WITH |[COMMAND] + [TAB]| FUNCTION*
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*HIDE [ACTIVITY MONITOR]* —>
[COMMAND] + [ h ]
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*YOU CAN MONITOR [CPU] VIA |[COMMAND] + TAB]| FUNCTION* —>
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*HIT [F3] TO MONITOR [CPU] VIA THE [DOCK]* —>
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*CLICK THE [% CPU HEADER] IN [CPU TAB] TO ORDER PROCESSES BY WHAT PERCENTAGE OF CPU THEY ARE CURRENTLY USING* —>
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*TO ACCESS THE ‘MEMORY TAB’, HIT THE [RIGHT ARROW KEY] + HIT [SPACE BAR]* —>
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*CLICK THE ‘MEMORY HEADER’ TO ORDER PROCESSES BY “AMOUNT OF MEMORY USED”* —>
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*launch ‘activity monitor’ via ‘launchpad’*
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*KS* –>
[SHIFT] + [OPTION] + [ ] ]
(this only works when the ‘app’ is already open)
(this doesn’t work anymore)
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*5 TABS*–>
*FROM ‘MOST’ TO ‘LEAST’*
*CPU*’’’
*MEMORY*
*ENERGY*
*DISK*
*NETWORK*
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*CPU*
(TAB 1/5)
XXX
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*MEMORY*
(TAB 2/5)
(RAM)
(my ‘2012 macbook’ has just ‘4GB RAM’)
(you need ‘8 GB’ (probably 16 GB) FOR ‘ADOBE PREMIERE PRO”)
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(check line graph in bottom left corner…)
“GREEN” –> “SUFFICIENT STORAGE”
“YELLOW” –> “RUNNING LOW”
“RED” –> “LOW STORAGE”
(it usually changes color over the length of the ‘horizontal axis’)
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*ENERGY*
(TAB 3/5)
XXX
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*DISK*
(TAB 4/5)
XXX
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*NETWORK*
(TAB 5/5)
XXX
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*TROUBLESHOOTS* –>
AXVISUALSUPPORTAGENT
(327)
(using up over 1GB of RAM)
“accessibility”
(system preferences)
(creeped all the way up to almost 20 GB on my new macbook!)
(to the point where i could not effectively charge the laptop battery)
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mds_stores
(spotlight)
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“QUICKLOOKUISERVICE”
(FINDER)
(2.34GB RAM???)
(spotlight indexing?)
(external hard drives)
(‘force quit’ to solve the problem)
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*WINDOWSERVER*
“quartz compositor”
(takes up lots of RAM when you are operating from an external monitor)
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*kernel_task*
(a basic macOS process)
(should be down at…)
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*7 JANUARY 2022* –>
*’OBS’ is causing “kernel_task” to eat up over 1000% of my CPU*
(slowly but surely)
(no help from the forums yet)
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*27 JUNE 2022*
*the ‘kernel_task’ problem has returned*
(‘google search’ shows that many others have this problem)
(and there are no obvious solutions)
(but it seems to have something to do with ‘webcams’)
(how did the problem get solved the last time i experienced it?)
(swollen battery?)
(because i leave my macbook connected to power most of the time)
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*when i open ‘OBS’, the ‘kernal_task’ is using 8.0% CPU*
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*but now “mds_stores” is eating up CPU*
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*21 JULY 2022*
mds_stores is eating up CPU
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