The other day I was using my laptop unplugged and it went from fully charged to 10% in 3 hours. Normally the battery would last all day. Long story short VS Code was obliterating my battery l...

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 h...

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 ...

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 Helpe...

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 mo...

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 actual...

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?

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 li...

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 remo...