Activity monitor dock icon in mavericks
I used to be able to show the Activity Monitor as a pie graph of memory usage in the dock icon. But in Mavericks I cannot figure out how to do that.
Help?
Yes, thanks for the confirmation. I did some googling and found more people with eight-cores who could not view more than one bar in the dock icon.
I understand that showing eight bars in the icon might've been unreadable, but I would have preferred that they show two bars for the dual processors, instead of leaving us with one bar. I'll have to look into some alternate utilities, but it's a shame Apple decided to regress functionality on their top-end machines.
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Activity Monitor Dock Icon - Memory - Missing
Why is the Memory option for the Activity Monitor Dock Icon missing now in Mavericks?
Why would Apple remove this feature?
I was happily using this little pie chart for a Dock Icon to keep track of overall memory usage on my system.
Has anyone else found a solution to bring this back?Yes, thanks for the confirmation. I did some googling and found more people with eight-cores who could not view more than one bar in the dock icon.
I understand that showing eight bars in the icon might've been unreadable, but I would have preferred that they show two bars for the dual processors, instead of leaving us with one bar. I'll have to look into some alternate utilities, but it's a shame Apple decided to regress functionality on their top-end machines. -
Weird Slow Perf. - Activity Monitor - Dock Problem
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Not in my experience. However, if the Dock is showing a lot of activity, then I suspect that you're running widgets. Click on the Dashboard icon and turn them off (easiest way is to open the Activity Monitor, select the Dock, and quit it).
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Missing dock icons in Mavericks
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This literally just happened, and I wasn't doing anything unusual.Some suggestions for all of you:
read Sco1by's post and then repair your hard drive. Don't just verify it, repair it: Boot into your recovery partition (hold down ⌘R at restart until you see the Apple symbol), go to Disk Utility, and repair your hard drive. While you're there, repair permissions too. OSX Tips Using the Recovery HD
This type of problem with macs is usually due to some third-party software that the user has added, usually an "enhancer", "optimizer", "cleaner", "defragmenter", "utility", anti-virus software, or "haxie". Collectively these are known as "crapware". They are notorious for causing problems like this with the GUI. They are unnecessary and harmful. They are popular with recent converts from the windows world. About 99% of the time, when people write in to these forums about symptoms like this, that's the problem.
I'd remove all these apps from your computer. If you can. They can be impossible to remove.
If the problems persist, then the only option is to start over, back up your documents, erase your HD, and do a clean install.
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Problems running Activity Monitor - repairing privileges
Hello everyone,
My iBook had a strange moment, and I had to reinstall Mac OS X, which for me is still 10.3.9. However, I can no longer run Activity Monitor - the icon just bounces up and down a couple of times in the Dock, then vanishes. I've tried running it via a terminal, and received the following error message:
2007-09-18 13:16:34.841 Activity Monitor[10594] The tool is not setuid root - please repair the privileges
What is going on?
Thanks!
LianaHi
Welcome to Discussions.
Open Disk Utility, found in Application/Utilities, and click on Repair Permissions.
Then try to use Activity Monitor normally by clicking on its icon.
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When try to launch the activity monitor, the icon showed up in dock, and then disappeared.
Activity monitor is installed by default.
It looks like your Mac OS X installation is damaged. You appear to be missing some or all of the contents of the directory
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit
cited in the log.
This could be due to directory corruption or overall OS corruption:
1. Run the procedure specified in my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ. Perform the steps therein in the order specified. Be sure to write down any error messages encountered in Step 2 of the procedure.
2. If item 1 does not resolve the problem, perform an Archive and Install of Mac OS X. See my "General advice on performing an Archive and Install" FAQ. Perform the steps therein in the specified order.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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Can I get the circle graphs back in Activity Monitor in Mavericks?
Can I get the circle graphs back in Activity Monitor in Mavericks?
No, the Disk Usage and Memory Usage pie charts are gone. Also gone is the Memory Usage Dock icon. (New graphs are much more useful, imo.)
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I used to be able to select memory usage for the dock icon, but now it seems to be gone, or not there, in Mavericks. All I see now is CPU, Network, and Disk Activity. Anyone know where memory usage went?
.....update, I found this answer on another post. (I may have to use third party options untill Apple provides an updated memory "pressure" usage to the dock icon.
This is no longer an option, especially since Mavericks has new memory management routines (ie, memory compression) that make the charting of memory usage less straightforward. Apple has switched to a new "Memory Pressure" approach to viewing memory usage, which is available in the Memory section of Activity Monitor, but so far has not been added as a Dock icon option. Hopefully Apple will do so, as this would perhaps be one of the more useful Dock icon options. -
Mavericks Activity Monitor Missing Functionality
I'm a developer who loves to keep track of application and system resources to be sure I'm making effective use of them both during the development process, but also to ensure that users of the software will have a good user experience and not be wasting RAM, CPU, etc, unnecessarily. So the Activity Monitor is a fantastic tool to stay on top of everything at all times. When I upgraded to Mavericks, I lost 3 key abilities that I use 24 hours/day and never shut off:
1) Ability to view memory usage in the Dock icon. I realize you can view it in the Memory tab on the main window, but the Dock icon allows you to display memory there, so you can use the main windows for network utilization.
2) Network utilization under Mountain Lion showed in very easy graphical representation the exact amount of KB/sec or MB/sec of network throughput as a line graph. Keeping that window open and tucking in a corner of one of your monitors allows for constant tracking of network bandwidth usage, so you always know how much bandwidth you're consuming at any given moment with a quick glance.
3) CPU utilization horizontal floating window. I realize they still have the vertical bar floating window representation, but where has the horizontal representation gone? I preferred that view as it takes up less screen realestate. This feature is gone in Mavericks.
With these 3 different views open and viewable at all times, you can keep close track of RAM, CPU, and network bandwidth. And all 3 of these views are gone in Mavericks! Can we please have them back? These are serious usability and efficiency tools that we've come to rely upon.Yes, I have a similar question, but particularly wanting the VERTICAL CPU usage FLOATING bar back. (still relevant to the Horizontal CPU usage bar of course). Here is the link to my post/question:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5478195
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Mail hang and is not responding in activity monitor after mavericks update
I click on the mail icon in my dock it just hangs and wont open. The activity monitor says it is just not responding. Any suggestions?
You have a program running that is incompatible. What third-party sound or audio applications are you running? It will be one of those. If you quit them the problem should disappear. You will have to force quit coreaudio and UserEventAgent via Activity Monitor or restart the computer but do not run the third-party application(s).
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I've tried right mouse also pulling above dock to remove-but won't go away.
Hello:
Open Activity Monitor. Go to the menu bar>view>dock icon. Check show application icon. That will obviously disappear when the application is closed.
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I spent all night trying to fix this. It seems to me that someone has been trying to hack into my system with all of the random codes/lines in my terminal and i have all of his foreign IP addresses. And now i get this strange message that popped up in my terminal. Idk what it entirely means? I would very appreciate if someone could just walk me through this. Thank you very much.
First time poster. I have Macbook Pro. OSX. Just downloaded the new mavericks. I'm i have my firewall on. I stay secure. I run Netbarrier, Virusbarrier, IdentityScrubber.
I know something is a little odd or just doesn't make since about my activity monitor. Then my WiFi was hacked last night and this person was writing tons lines of commands/codes that i found in my terminal and my activity monitor doesn't look normal, and I've only been a mac owner for about a year now and i'm learning more and more but while trying to figure out what was going on this message popped up which concerned me the most. Any help would be most appreciated, thanks guys. I have my terminal full of his foreign ip addresses i noticed, and a lot of other commands and lines he wrote out that i definitely did not type myself. Can anyone give me a hand on this? Thanks
--- 192.168.1.103 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
Extol:~ FBI$ who
FBI console Nov 7 02:14
FBI ttys000 Nov 7 04:33
Extol:~ FBI$ whois
usage: whois [-aAbdgiIlmQrR6] [-c country-code | -h hostname] [-p port] name ...
Extol:~ FBI$ whois 192.168.1.103
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
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# Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be:
# "n 192.168.1.103"
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NetRange: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
CIDR: 192.168.0.0/16
OriginAS:
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Parent: NET-192-0-0-0-0
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Comment: These addresses can be used by anyone without any need to coordinate with IANA or an Internet registry. The traffic from these addresses does not come from ICANN or IANA. We are not the source of activity you may see on logs or in e-mail records. Please refer to http://www.iana.org/abuse/answers
Comment:
Comment: These addresses were assigned by the IETF, the organization that develops Internet protocols, in the Best Current Practice document, RFC 1918 which can be found at:
Comment: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1918
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Updated: 2013-08-30
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-192-168-0-0-1
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Extol:~ FBI$
Extol:~ FBI$ hosts
-bash: hosts: command not found
Extol:~ FBI$ who
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FBI ttys000 Nov 7 04:33
Extol:~ FBI$ whois
usage: whois [-aAbdgiIlmQrR6] [-c country-code | -h hostname] [-p port] name ...
Extol:~ FBI$ whois 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
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NetRange: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
CIDR: 192.168.0.0/16
OriginAS:
NetName: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-CBLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED
NetHandle: NET-192-168-0-0-1
Parent: NET-192-0-0-0-0
NetType: IANA Special Use
Comment: These addresses are in use by many millions of independently operated networks, which might be as small as a single computer connected to a home gateway, and are automatically configured in hundreds of millions of devices. They are only intended for use within a private context and traffic that needs to cross the Internet will need to use a different, unique address.
Comment:
Comment: These addresses can be used by anyone without any need to coordinate with IANA or an Internet registry. The traffic from these addresses does not come from ICANN or IANA. We are not the source of activity you may see on logs or in e-mail records. Please refer to http://www.iana.org/abuse/answers
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Comment: These addresses were assigned by the IETF, the organization that develops Internet protocols, in the Best Current Practice document, RFC 1918 which can be found at:
Comment: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1918
RegDate: 1994-03-15
Updated: 2013-08-30
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-192-168-0-0-1
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Updated: 2012-08-31
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/IANA
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# Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be:
# "n 192.168.255.255"
# Use "?" to get help.
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=192.168.255.255?showDetails=true&showARIN=fals e&ext=netref2
NetRange: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
CIDR: 192.168.0.0/16
OriginAS:
NetName: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-CBLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED
NetHandle: NET-192-168-0-0-1
Parent: NET-192-0-0-0-0
NetType: IANA Special Use
Comment: These addresses are in use by many millions of independently operated networks, which might be as small as a single computer connected to a home gateway, and are automatically configured in hundreds of millions of devices. They are only intended for use within a private context and traffic that needs to cross the Internet will need to use a different, unique address.
Comment:
Comment: These addresses can be used by anyone without any need to coordinate with IANA or an Internet registry. The traffic from these addresses does not come from ICANN or IANA. We are not the source of activity you may see on logs or in e-mail records. Please refer to http://www.iana.org/abuse/answers
Comment:
Comment: These addresses were assigned by the IETF, the organization that develops Internet protocols, in the Best Current Practice document, RFC 1918 which can be found at:
Comment: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1918
RegDate: 1994-03-15
Updated: 2013-08-30
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-192-168-0-0-1
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgId: IANA
RegDate:
Updated: 2012-08-31
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/IANA
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone:
OrgTechEmail
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OrgAbuseName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
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OrgAbuseEmail:
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<Personal Information Edited by Host>haha, so now i'm thinking. I'm learning the terminal as fast as i can but there are several lines of codes and commands in there that throws up red flags to me that i don't fully understand. It just looks fishy too me. It would be highly appreciated if someone could just check this out just to tell me that i don't need to worry about it. Or point me in the right direction. I just feel un easy about this. ha.
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Slow Mavericks and Activity Monitor Uselessness
The recent Mavericks update may have improved performance to some degree, but I'm still experiencing unusual slowness of apps often. One of the most irritating things is that the one app I except to help me shed light on the cause of the slowness, Activity Monitor, typically shows NO unusual heavy system load when I observe apps being slow.
For example, I click on + in Safari to create a new tab. I expect immediate response, an immediate new tab being open. Instead, it takes maybe 5 seconds, perhaps even 10 seconds. So, I immediately switch to the Activity Monitor window to see if I can identify what might have caused the slowness. I think that maybe the CPU become extremely overloaded during that brief period. But I see nothing in Activity Monitor to clue me in as to what the problem was.
To me, this means Activity Monitor is not monitoring relevant activities. I don't know why Safari is slow opening at tab, but whatever it is doing should be an activity that Activity Monitor monitors, since it obviously is something that takes the machine a lot of time to do.
Could a knowledgeable person in Apple's software department respond here and say something about why opening a new tab in Safari takes so long?
tedPlease read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your personal files or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled on some models, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of steps 1 and 2.
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