macOS Activity Monitor

Now the user has the opportunity to monitor the work of the Mac thanks to the activity monitor from Apple.

Mac runs on Unix applications. And the activity monitor allows you to view, and if the situation requires, even terminate many macOS processes running on the device.

What are processes

A process in a UNIX-based operating system is a background application that serves to perform a specific task. In some cases, there is a user interface, but most often they use the activity monitor to understand which processes are malicious and understand what needs to be dealt with.

How to use Activity Monitor?

The application lists all the processes that are currently running on the device. This resembles a classic task manager.

And here you can sort the data by clicking on the header of a specific column. You can even move them by simply dragging them from place to place.

In fact, everything is extremely clear here on an intuitive level, and everything is accompanied by the names of the operations, so you can do everything extremely quickly and without much difficulty.

But it is important to note that if malware is running that loads the system, then after manually disabling it, it can automatically restart. And often the system does everything possible to ensure that they work.

In this case, you need to get information about the process in the corresponding section. After that, an information window opens and shows whether it is software or not, and what ports or files work for it.

About the capabilities

There are an order of magnitude more columns available for viewing than the default columns. And they can be turned on and off by including them in the View->Columns submenu. It is also possible to display a live Dock icon or change the refresh rate, filter by type or clear history.

The user also has access to CPU and GPU history graphs, as well as CPU usage. So there you can track all the information of interest, based on which you can draw conclusions.

In fact, Apple has its own guide to using the application, so all the functionality of the software is fully described there.