I have "Windows Server" as the second process listed taking up 30% of my CPU. Does anybody know what this is and can I kill it? I am not running anything Windows on this machine. Thanks
On Monday, April 28, 2014 1:25:03 PM UTC-7, Chris Blouch wrote: > > Sounds about right. Unix processes don't take much overhead and are > often coded to 'block' and take no CPU until a particular event happens. > So many of those processes are adding no load to the CPU. Likewise unix > systems like OSX swap out to disk any allocated memory that hasn't been > used for a while when needed. So a blocked unused process will > eventually be swapped out and will only create enough of a footprint to > keep track of it in case it needs woken up sometime. > > CB > > On 4/26/14, 12:03 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: > > I can only answer one of your questions. :) > > > > I just took a look and I have 149 processes going. > > > > Traci > > > > On Apr 25, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Jim Gatteys <jgat...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > >> Hi all! > >> I thought my computer was running a bit slow so took a look at Activity > Monitor under Utilities. It says I have 158 processes going. Is that > about normal for you all? Is there a list of most common processes to see > if I need all of them or if I can kill some of the processes? > >> I don't remember that many going under Windows but it has been a while > so perhaps I have forgotten. > >> Thanks, > >> Jim > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to macvisionarie...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> To post to this group, send email to > >> macvisi...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
