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Which tab is "Google Chrome Helper" running on?

In MacOS in the Activity Monitor Google Chrome extensions show as "Google Chrome Helper". These often take up much of the CPU time. Is it possible to determine which tab a given Google Chrome Helper process is running on? Other people have suggested…
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Activity Monitor always Paused in SSMS 17.8.1

Whenever I open the Activity Monitor in SQL Server Management Studio 17.8.1(14.0.17277) the overview always switches to (paused). Even if I choose resume, it quickly changes back to paused. This happens on a variety of SQL Servers and SQL Server…
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Activity Monitor showing my CPU usage is more than 100% ???(iOS)

My messenger Application is using more than 100% CPU usage.How can one program use more CPU than I have? What is that percentage based on?
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Sample a process on Mac OS X from a C/C++ program

The Sample Process feature in Activity Monitor is quite a useful thing. However, I need to do the same thing (take samples) of a certain process from another running process (C/C++) or a command line. Is there any way to do this? I have been…
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Xcode Instruments using lots of memory.

Okay so this is my issue and I apologize if its a duplicate. I searched but couldn't find anything I considered relevant. When I run instruments from xcode and begin testing my application for memory leaks or allocations my iMac eventually begins…
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Xcode helper "swift" consuming a lot of memory

On MacOS Catalina, I run Xcode 11.2 (or 11.2.1 GM). From time to time, a process called "swift" appear in Activity Monitor consuming a lot of memory, which is way more than my MacBook Pro 15' 2019 can handle it. The battery is draining very fast and…
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Detect disk activity in Delphi

I'm using Delphi 2007. I am copying files to a remote drive. When the copying ends, I shutdown/standby the machine. It can happen that some files don't get copied from buffer to disk, and the remote disk gets disconnected, so the backup is not…
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How to find memory usage in mac OSX?

How to find memory usage like an activity monitor display in osx 10.9 and above. i have used following code to fetch memory usage. but there is some difference between what it shows in activity monitor and what is i find by this code. mach_port_t…
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Django Dev. Server Refuses to Quit

The development server for Django is acting very odd. The browser accessing it gets stuck on loading, and any attempt to quit it does not work. When I hit control c it seems to quite, but in actuality is still running. The only way to make it quit…
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understanding vm_stat in mac os, how to convert those numbers to something similar to activity monitor?

I'm trying to write a mac os program to monitor the system (something similar to the activity monitor). I have looked at the function vm_stat and when I run it I got this: Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes) Pages free: …
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ActivityMonitor gets hit but getLastActivity returns null

I have a problem with one of the test cases in my test suite. What I'm trying to do is simply to click on a button and wait for a new activity to launch. ActivityMonitor monitor = getInstrumentation().addMonitor(MyActivity.class.getName(), null,…
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How to check in Mac OSX with Python if a process is RUNNING or not

I am using python 2.7 on mac osx 10.9. I want to check whether, a process is running or not. I looked into this Q&A, but result is not desired. I want to check, whether any process of a particular name is running or not
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Xcode Instruments: peak RAM of iPhone apps running in Simulator?

Is Activity Monitor (a.k.a. Memory Monitor) the only tool in Xcode Instruments that can measure the total app RAM usage of an iPhone app running in Simulator? Just that line showing momentary wired RAM? And how accurate is that versus iPhone…
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iPad: Activity monitor's "Real Memory" v. application memory usage?

I am helping a friend hunt down a crash in an iPad application he has written. The application is pretty straightforward, transitioning between UIViews under a single UIViewController as the user goes forward and backwards through pages. The crash…
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Azure Data Studio - how to access Activity Monitor

I've recently installed ADS but I can't find how to view the activity monitor. In SSMS, you can easily access the activity monitor and view which queries are blocked, Active expensive queries, recent expensive queries etc. Is this available in…
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