How to inspect processes in Activity Monitor

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Activity Monitor gives you all kinds of information about what’s running on your Mac. And you can focus on each process to get a summary of what it is and what it’s doing. If you’re having issues with your Mac running slowly or unpredictably, this information might help you to find the app or background process that’s causing the slowdown.

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Here’s how to inspect a process on Mac:

1. In Activity Monitor, find a process in the list, and double-click it

2. This will open a new window with a few tabs. In the Memory tab, you’ll be able to see how much RAM the process is using

Check how much memory is used by an app via Activity Monitor

3. Click Statistics to see a range of technical information, including the number of threads a process is using

Statistics tab in the Activity Monitor

4. The Open Files and Ports tab shows exactly what the name says. You can see exactly which files an is using at any given time

Open Files and Ports tab in the Activity Monitor

5. If you click next to Parent Process, it will open up another window, with details about that process

Get the details of the running app using Activity Monitor

Here’s how to run these reports in Activity Monitor:

1. In Activity Monitor, click the icon with three dots

click the icon with three dots in Activity Monitor

2. Select Sample Process, Spindump, System Diagnostics, Spotlight Diagnostics

Three dots context menu in Activity Monitor

3. With some of these, you may need to enter your Mac password. If so, enter it, and let the report build

Run Spotlight diagnostics in Activity Monitor

4. At the end, you’ll have a file you can send to Apple Support.

Send Spotlight diagnostics report to Apple Support

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