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ACTIVITY MONITOR FOR MAC OS SIERRA MAC OS X
ACTIVITY MONITOR FOR MAC OS SIERRA INSTALL

Once that is done boot your mac normally and before restoring any of your apps, docs, pics or settings see if the problem is still there. the CPU begins to spike randomly in any application you have opened according to activity monitor.

ACTIVITY MONITOR FOR MAC OS SIERRA INSTALL

Boot from the installer, re-format your HD and install the OS fresh. Disable MacBook Pro 2011 Discrete GPU (Faulty) - Mac OS High Sierra 10.13. I would back up your whole drive (Time Machine or 3rd party utility) Create a flash drive macOS installer with your preferred OS version (there are tutorials all over the place on hot to do this). Problem gone? The issue was something in your user profile. PC-SPY uses Internet connection to transfer the information to your account.

OK so we've tried diagnostic tools, how about a different user profile? Go into System Preferences, create a new admin user and log in as that user. There is no shortcut (for Windows) or alias (for Mac) displayed on the target device. It is not a guarantee that it will find a problem with any hardware or soft errors/bad blacks on the SSD. Select the top drive (your boot drive) and click on First aid.īoth of those tests will find gross issues with your Mac.

Activity Monitor is located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities.

ACTIVITY MONITOR FOR MAC OS SIERRA MAC OS X

Once in recovery mode go to Disk utility. This FAQ provides recommendations for optimizing Mac OS X performance.

Boot the Mac into Recovery Mode by holding the ⌘ r kees at boot.

To explore the Activity Monitor User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field. It’s easy to keep an eye on your system status without even looking at the Activity Monitor windowyou can monitor your CPU, network, or disk usage as a live graph right in the Dock. The Mac will do its thing and report any problems it can. See real-time CPU, network, or disk status in the Dock. See Activity Monitor's internal Help: Activity Monitor > Help > Activity Monitor Help For more information see Apple's Support Document: Use Activity Monitor on your Mac Also, as mentioned by klanomath, for more specialized scenarios there is Instruments in Xcode.

Boot the Mac while holding the d to go into diagnostic mode.

This could easily be bound to a failing component (logic board, drive, I/O etc.) As if there are hardware problems those won't show up in activity monitor. There is a reason, or at least a possible to likely reason(s). Unfortunately the answer is most likely "yes."