Activity monitoring (Network)

Hi;
I have seen something stranger in the activity monitoring (network section). When I connect to the internet via ethernet, the network gragh shows some activities and it indicates that some files have been sent or recieved while I do not do anything which requires internet connection such as browsing and downloading. Thus what do these activities want to show? Are there because of some viruses or the wedjets (e.g. weather forecasting) which run when I connect to Internet?
thanks,
Mohsen

That is normal handshaking going on due to the connection process. I don't think Dashboard Widgets update until the Dashboard desktop is activated,
So don't worry, your Mac is not doing anything sinister.

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Weird - Activity Monitor Network Traffic vs iStat Traffic

With no applications running on my MacBook Pro, the Network tab of the Activity monitor is showing 'Data received/sec" toggling every second or so between 1.38 KB/s and 2.75 KB/s. It's showing the same numbers for 'Data sent/sec' as well. I can't figure out what is causing this network traffic. But if it's real, it's adding up to about 5 GB a month of bandwidth usage. My cap is only 60 GB so it's significant.
But when I use iStat or the Net Monitor app to monitor throughput, they show 0.0 traffic when the system is idle. Also, since last night Activity Monitor shows 322 MB data received and 99 MB data sent. While iStat shows 239 MB received and 16 MB sent.
So which is correct? Does Activity Monitor also include traffic that is internal to my network? Or do I have a phantom bandwidth hog somewhere?
Thanks for any insight to the weirdness.
Jim

The switches at home and at work generally corroborate the activity shown by tcpdump / atMonitor / MenuMeters, not the continuous data flow shown by Activity Monitor. The MacBook Air I'm sitting at right now shows similar discrepancies, with traffic totals in Activity Monitor about 40x higher than those shown with the other tools and a steady and inexplicable (and by other means invisible) 29-34 KB/sec of both sent & received traffic. tcpdump shows periods of network silence between 2-15 seconds in length (in between DNS lookups; netbios syncs; ntp queries; ipp messages; http, pop, and imap messages; etc. happening in bursts as one would expect).
Changing Activity Monitor to refresh every half second shows the mystery traffic as a burst of 112 KB sent & received every two seconds--and no, that's not the same throughput as the 29-34 KB seen at 2-second refresh intervals. When I set refresh to every 5 seconds, the mystery throughput drops to 22 KB / sec. As the throughput varies depending on refresh interval, I wonder if I'm seeing internal loopback queries (or something of that sort) contributing to the totals. Is it possible that the mystery traffic is of AM's own creation, and only exists within the machine and is not actually sent on the network?
Lest we digress further into general network troubleshooting techniques, let me restate the question, perhaps a bit more clearly: has anyone else seen this traffic-volume discrepancy between the Activity Monitor's Network tab and other network monitoring tools, and does anyone have an explanation for it?

New Photos App take a very long time to upload 20 Pictures, while the Activity Monitor is showing much more data sent (MB) than these two pictues

The New photos app is taking a very long time to upload images. It stays a very long time at 20,104 for example. When I check the Activity Monitor (Network) it shows that the computer is actually uploading stuff. After about 2 hours, only 20 Pics&Videos are uploaded. The uploaded pics and videos are about 500MB while the data sent is around 1GB. I am positive that Photos is the only thing uploading data at the moment.
Anyone else facing this problem?

It can take days, even weeks.
Tell me 2 things and I will tell you the estimated upload time.
1 How big is your Library (in GB)
2 How fast is your upload speed.
Or you can just use the upload time calculator and do it yourself

Activity Monitor and Network Usage??

I'd like to get an idea of my network usage per month prior to signing up for a service plan, and I notice that the Network tab of Activity Monitor will track Data received. When or how does the number shown there get reset to zero? What would be the best way to track the network usage over a period of a week or so?

I believe the number is from your last login, but it shouldn't be too hard to test whether that is the starting point or the last restart.
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Is 'At Monitor' bad news for networks? Or is 'Activity Monitor' bugged?

I notice that when At Monitor (http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/) is running on my network, Activity Monitor's 'Network' graph is nearly off the scale, a green line sitting at the top the little graph window.
After a restart and no At Monitor running, Activity Monitor registered 4.2 MB rec'd and 3.2 MB sent over 30 minutes.
Turn on At Monitor and in 8 minutes, a further 20 MB in and 20 MB out were registered.
Quit At Monitor and in 11 minutes only 1 MB and .6 MB registered.
At Monitor back on but with NO network - LAN or WiFi - and the graph is peaking steadily again and, after 12 minutes, 36 MB rec'd and 36 sent…
At Monitor off and now there is still network activity, although more spiky.
While all this has been observed, Wireshark has been running. I am woefully ignorant of the finer point of Wireshark but it seemed to me that its screen did not scroll up as fast as I thought it might during the frantic bits and stopped dead when I pulled the cable out of the socket, as it should. Maybe it should be polling some of the more unusual protocols or something.
Or is this a 'Just Works'** Apple bug?
**heavy irony, in case you didn't spot it.

Hi Torben
Thank you for contacting Nokia Care customer support.
Since we wrote last I have got a lot more experience with the Belles situation in this area.
Recently suspicion fell on a bug in old saved data from the "Anna" that causes general network error.
To solve it, there must be a backup - but NOT the programs / settings, since they bear the error.
Subsequently, disconnect the phone from, select the Offline profile (Press and hold the cards on the off button and choose the one on this list)
"Ring" now * # 7370 # accept and enter the security code is 12345, if it asks for it.
Your security code if you have change it.
Set Time & Date and reviewing start-up menus.
Get immediately sent to the settings for data and multimedia.
Restart your phone and try now about the Internet is working properly.
Do they do it; you can safely restore contacts and whatever else you have in your backup.
I would personally appreciate it if you want to participate in a brief survey that will be about my response to you. Customer survey will receive a separate e-mail.
If there is anything I can do for you, then you're obviously more than welcome to contact me again.
Sincerely
Jannik Petersen
Nokia Care

How can i monitor network traffic to debug video playback issues from a NAS?

I am having problems playing videos on my new Mini that i am using as an HTPC.
I have a brand new Mac Mini running Lion with a 2.7 i7 processor and 8GB of RAM with a wired connection to a switch. .
My switch is a NETGEAR ProSafe GS108T-200NAS set to default settings. I haven't had a chance to start messing with VLAN settings or anything else. There is a bit of a learning curve on my part on this end.
My NAS is a ReadyNAS Pro (RNDP6000) with 3 x 1 TB hitachi ultrastar (HUA722010CLA330) drives and a 1.5 TB seagate (ST31500341AS) drive setup in RAID config using X-RAID2.
The problem I am having is video playback when accessing large video files off of the NAS. These are typically 1080 HD mkv files.
I have tested movies as small as 7.5GB with only slight stutters on occasion. I tried a 10.5GB movie and the stalling was much more pronounced. Movies larger than 11GB are completely unwatchable stalling every minute or so.
I have also tried large movies on the local drive and that is not a problem at all - they play back just fine. Beautiful playback in hidef. Mind you, some of these are the same files that were stalling over the network.
I have also noticed that some other network devices get kicked off the network when a movie is playing.
I think it has something to do with the transfer speed of files over the network and the switch - i am no expert at this mind you.
I am wondering if there is some sort of utility that i can use to monitor network activity on the mini so that i can fix my problem. Or has anyone made chages in their switch settings to optimize data trasfer speeds.
Any advice or recommendations on.
Thank you all!

OK, I did a couple of things and ran things a couple of times.
First what I did settings wise:
I enabled jumbo frames on the Mac Mini, ReadyNAS Pro, and the Netgear GS108T switch. All with MTU set to 9000.
I went ahead and enabled jumbo frames on the rest of the computers on the network just in case.
After these changes I ran into the same problems with videos timing out - very annoying and frustrating as you can imagine.
Then I started playing with device configurations. My original configuration was NAS > Netgear switch > Mac Mini. I went ahead and switched the switch to an Airport Extreme I have as my WAP and the setup looked like this - NAS > Airport Extreme > Mac Mini.
Well, long story short, no go. It appears to me that the NAS is the one having issues providing the necessary data at the proper speed. I also tried playing sopme movies off of the NAS onto a desktop i have and had the same issues - choppy frames and crashing movies. I even tried connecting wirelessly to see if that would work.
BTW, I have the Mac accessing the file system using CIFS.
I don't know what else I could do.
I am going to have to go to the Netgear forums to see if i can figure this out. Hopefully, I can get things going to be able to help some people out.
If anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly appreciated.
My only other alternative is spending $2000 for the thunderbolt capable NAS that Apple sells - it's only money!
Cesar

Updated to Mavericks. Now theres tons of activity in my terminal and my activity monitor doesn't seem normal. I want to think someone's hacking me, but i need experienced help please!

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
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
# Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be:
#     "n 192.168.1.103"
# Use "?" to get help.
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=192.168.1.103?showDetails=true&showARIN=false& 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
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:
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone
OrgAbuseEmail:
OrgAbuseRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/IANA-IP-ARIN
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
Extol:~ FBI$
Extol:~ FBI$ hosts
-bash: hosts: command not found
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 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
# Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be:
#     "n 192.168.0.0"
# Use "?" to get help.
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=192.168.0.0?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ex t=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
Updated:        2012-08-31
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/IANA
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
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OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
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# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
# 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
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/IANA-IP-ARIN
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OrgAbuseName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
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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.

Activity Monitor shows very little free space. Help?

I am wanting to do Photoshop Creative Suite 6 on my MacBook Pro and everything is running SO SLOW! I have opened the Activity Monitor to check things out. I am not a computer expert at all, so I have included some information below in hopes that this will help dissect the problem.
It seems to me that the following numbers are high and I am wondering if I can TRASH anything that is taking up too much space? What programs on my MacBook Pro are taking up SO MUCH space? When I open my computer, I only start running FireFox and Entourage. Should I get rid of other icons in my dock that are not running? By being on the dock, does this use RAM?
I had a lot of pictures on iphoto and I moved them all to an external hard drive.
I have emptied the iphoto trash and double-clicked the actual trash can to delete everything!
I don't have any third party software on my computer. I have heard that this can be bad, so I don't have any of that.
I did purchase Mac Cleaner (or something similar) several years ago, and it caused MAJOR problems on my computer. I had to start from scratch and set up everything again with the help of a great MAC products person on the phone. I want to TRASH anything that is taking up extra space (cashe) but I don't want to buy a third party "MAC Cleaning" product.
I have a Mid- 2009 MacBook Pro
Processor: 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Software: OSX 10.8.5
It also shows in the "About the Mac" that L2 Cache is 3 MB. This seems high for the cashe. Can this be cleaned up somehow?
I realize that the following numbers fluctuate, but gave the "ballpark" numbers as they are coming up now.
The GREEN portion of the "pie" is almost non-existent. The % User fluctuates between 5.00 and 8.00. The RED % System is at about 2.50. The Black % Idle fluctuates between 80.00 and 90.00.
The System Memory FREE (Green) is at about 104.0 MB. The ACTIVE is at 758.2 MB. The INACTIVE is at about 646.0 MB. USED: 1.90 GB.
VM Size: 200.40 GB
Page ins: 751.4 MB
Page outs: 209.7 MB
Swap Used: 1.17
Disk ACTIVITY
Reads in : 347394
Reads out: 161500
data read: 5.61 GB
Data Written: 6.95 GB
DISK USAGE
Space utilized: 65.41 GB
Space Free: 93.44 GB
NETWORK
Packets in: 48755
Packets out: 33185
Data Rec'd: 48.7 MB
Data Sent: 4.5 MB
Thank you to anyone who can help by calculating these numbers and letting me know how I should proceed. I greatly appreciate any help you can provide!

Since your computer is five years old there is no warranty to negate. If if there were, replacing the RAM in a MacBook Pro would not void the warrantly. If you update the RAM, keep the old RAM just in case.
The new RAM is a $100 investment. Compare that to a Retina MBP with 8 GB of RAM for $1,400 (128 GB SSD) or $1,500 (256 GB SSD). Your choice.
Take a look at the free tutorial at http://www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook on replacing RAM in your MBP to see if you think it is easy enough for you. I expect you will.
On a 2009 MacBook (not Pro) I recently upgraded the RAM to 8 GB and the disk to an SSD and it improved the boot time and application start times dramatically. Now it runs most things as fast as my MacBook Air. It even boots faster than my MBA. That was about a $200 investment. So I my expereince is it is worth updating older Macs.
Rather than installiing an expensive SSD, you can boost the speed of the disk dramatically to SSD-like speeds for about $110.
I am referring to the Seagate 1T Hybrid SSHD 2.5” drive selling for about $110 on Amazon. It includes an 8 GB SSD cache that really speeds up your I/O and with 1 TB of storage you should never run out of disk space.
It is fairly easy to replace the disk yourself, especially if you purchase the following inexpensive kits:
Toolkit: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TOOLKITMHD/ (referenced above)
USB 2.0 disk enclosure: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ES2.5BPU2S/
Again, go to ifixit.com for a tutoral on replacing the disk.
Porting the data is easy:
Install the new drive in the external enclosure.
Boot the Recovery Partition (Boot then hold down Command and R simultaneously).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
(If your system came with installation disks, boot from them.)
Use the Disk Utility Partition tab to format the drive Mac OS Extended (journaled) with a GUID partition.
Disk Utility > Partition > Partiton Layout: Singe Partition > Options… > GUID Partition Table > OK > Name: Macintosh HD2 > Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled) > Apply >
Erase tab > Name: Macintosh HD2 > Security Options… > single pass of zeroes > OK > Erase…
(Wait, this will take a long time.)
Clone the existing drive onto the new one:
Disk Utility > Restore > Source "Macintosh HD” or whatever the old system disk is named.
> Destination: “Macintosh HD2” or whatever you named it.
> Restore
(Wait. This well take some time.)
Physically swap the two drives using the tutorial above.
Boot normally.
Save the old disk as an archived backup until you are sure you don’t need it.
Be sure to backup your system before any software updates or hardware upgrades.

Why does airport base station show up in activity monitor if I do not have nor us it?

Been having internet problems and been watching my activity monitor a lot. AirportBaseStationAgent shows up often as does loginwindowagent and a few other odd ones. This happens even when airport is off and I am doing nothing but watching the monitor.
On a seperate but like issue - My internet is continually spotty and I stay online by running the dignostic thing in network. I hit it and it shows the last two or three lights orange for just a sec and then green...do again immediately same thing until I get green consistantly - then internet works fine for a bit and then have to do it all again. The first day I change router info or the first day i erased everything on my computer it did not do this and internet was great, but now back to having to run it constantly or weirdly, if I constantly run pages at say wiki I get less interruption. What is this? I feel like someone is on my computer and all I hear is how unlikely that is and why? I dont' know why, I just know it really seems that way.
Any help on either question??? Please?

thanks, figured it out..must have been a case of the fat fingers.

Mail slows to a trickle and then freezes - Activity Monitor shows all OK

I've been having this issue recently where I will be typing an email and I notice I begin to outpace Mail's ability to display the letters I am typing until finally it stops altogether.
At this point Mail becomes almost completely unresponsive. I can still click on the email modal window in question and move it around, but I can't access the Mail main window or click buttons and the menu bar doesn't come up.
The weird thing is that Activity Monitor appears to think that everything is kosher. No CPU spikes, no memory issues, no excessive writing, and no network log jams. So it actually never displays the message "Application Unresponsive" as one would normally expect from an unresponsive app.
The console messages that appear at this time are:
Jul 1 10:37:16 Mac-Pro Mail[81954]: F4MUpdateCheck: Connection failed! Error - bad URL (null)
Jul 1 10:37:21: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Jul 1 10:37:21 Mac-Pro Mail[81954]: * Failed to decode data, treating as binary
Jul 1 10:43:17 Mac-Pro Mail[81954]: F4MUpdateCheck: Connection failed! Error - bad URL (null)
Jul 1 10:43:47: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Jul 1 10:43:50 Mac-Pro Mail[81954]: F4MUpdateCheck: Connection failed! Error - bad URL (null)
Jul 1 10:47:57 Mac-Pro Mail[81954]: F4MUpdateCheck: Connection failed! Error - bad URL (null)
Jul 1 10:48:27: --- last message repeated 16 times ---
Jul 1 10:48:27 Mac-Pro Mail[81954]: F4MUpdateCheck: Connection failed! Error - bad URL (null)
Jul 1 10:48:57: --- last message repeated 241 times ---
Jul 1 10:48:57 Mac-Pro Mail[81954]: F4MUpdateCheck: Connection failed! Error - bad URL (null)
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I thought F4M was Flip 4 Mac, but I have no idea why that would be tied to a Mail process.
Any thoughts or ideas would be welcome on troubleshooting this!
Thanks in advance,
Richard

Hello Richard:
I have never experienced what you describe so I am fishing a bit.
Try rebuilding the mailbox(s).
If that does not help, trash the preference file (com.apple.mail.plist) and restart.
One other thought - I have read that Mail will have strange behavior if the mailboxes are too full. However, I have no clue how +"too full"+ is defined.
Barry

Activity monitor won't launch

It pops up for a second in the Dock and then disappears. Is there anyway to reinstall it? or trouble-shoot it? I repaired permissions but it didn't help.

Hi
Create another administrator account - call it whatever you like, test will do. System Preferences > Accounts > click the plus icon. Once you've created this log out of the current account and log into the new account. Now try to see if Activity Monitor will launch. If it does not try a reinstall of the OS but preserve network users and settings. If it does launch then log out of the new admin account, log back in to the old account and move the whole of the Preferences folder in /Users/Home/Library to the Desktop. Restart the mac. On successful log in you will notice that the dock has been reset back to its default - don't worry you have not lost anything. Go to the Preferences folder you previously moved to the desktop and find the com.apple.mail.plist and com.apple.dock.plist and move these two files to the newly created Preferences folder in /Users/Home/Library. If it tells you that com.apple.dock.plist already exists then overwrite it. Restart the mac again and you should now be OK.
Tony

Activity Monitor Question

If there was a book titled "Activity Monitor for Dummies," I'd buy it. My question is in reference to the Network activity mode -- when I'm monitoring network activity, I'm seeing a modest amount of packet activity being transmitted and received by my computer. Is this activity related to tracking operations being done by a third party? In my innocent little world, I would expect to see zero bytes comming out of my 'puter when I'm not using it to communicate with the web. Can someone please explain.

... Is this activity related to tracking operations being done by a third party?
Possible, but very unlikely. Your computer routinely communicates with your router and other computers on your LAN. Even if you didn't have a router at all, your computer would constantly be attempting to find a network connection. Macs are relentless about that.
If you doubt this, simply disconnect your router from the outside world. You will still see some activity. Only if you disable all network connections in System Preferences > Network will you see no communication at all.
In my innocent little world, I would expect to see zero bytes comming out of my 'puter when I'm not using it to communicate with the web. Can someone please explain.
If you are concerned about what processes want to connect to the outside world, you need Little Snitch: http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/
If you are concerned that your computer has been taken over by a "bot" click here: http://www.botnetchecker.com/ Do not download advertised anti-malware junk from there or anywhere else though.

Why does Activity Monitor show traffic to my external drive?

Because one of my email accounts was hacked a couple of months ago (from my provider's end, I'm convinced), I have been monitoring network usage on my iMac using Activity Monitor. Yesterday, I noticed almost continuous use, altho "spiky". The spikes were very regular and high and just kept going on and on. I shut down all my apps (including mail, browser, etc.) except Photoshop. Spikes still there. Pulled out the Ethernet cord. Spikes still there. Shut down blue tooth, wi-fi - spikes still there. Overnight, I shut down my computer. This a.m. when I powered up, still spikes. I noticed Time Machine was running. Stopped it, and spikes stopped. I have my back up on a separate external hard drive. Why in the world would Activity Monitor show this as "network activity"? Is there any way I can use settings that would show only "real" network activity, from outside my wi-fi, blue-tooth, and external drives? Spiky right now (can't get screen shot to upload), but more irregular. Have browser, email,and others open. Time Machine not running.
Maybe there's some other app that would help me watch my network usage in the way I would like. Please recommend. Thx!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3045965

Activity Monitor Stops Updating

First post here.. thanks for any help
I've been using OSX Leopard since release, and for some reason Activity Monitor stops updating after a while. Sometimes after 10 minutes or 20 minutes. Then my processes stop updating, including stuff in the process list and any summary info below it such as disk activity, memory activity, etc. I use the floating CPU window as well (cmd-4) which continues to update, but doesn't behave well with Spaces which is another gripe of mine but not the point of this post.
By going and changing the refresh rate, it starts responding again, though it's easier to simply quit and reopen the app. This is a big issue for me as I leave Activity Monitor open 24/7 and having to open/close it constantly throughout the day is bothersome.
Oh, and for my install, I did a fresh install and updated to 10.5.1. I'm on a Dual-quad core 3.0ghz Mac. Many thanks.

I also trashed the plist file and it worked for a little while but then back to the previous behavior which is not refreshing the process table list, or network traffic, or disk activity, the only thing that keeps on refreshing is the CPU history.

Updates break Activity Monitor (Mac Pro & G4)

After applying the recent updates to my Mac Pro Quad Xeon and my G4 dual 800, both running 10.4.11, Activity Monitor does not work on either machine. On double-clicking, I get the launch animation and the Dock expands for less than a second, but the application does not launch. Trashing the .plist file in the User domain prefs folder doesn't help. Neither does Repairing Permissions.
Conversely, Activity Monitor works fine on my iMac, running 10.5.5. All machines are networked via a Time Capsule – the iMac via AirPort, and the desktops directly via ethernet (Cat 5e).
Any ideas about what's gone wrong here?

Good call, BDAqua. I checked in system.log and Crash Reporter. Here are the results for both machines:
Host Name: MacPro
Date/Time: 2008-09-18 19:04:19.386 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S2167)
Report Version: 4
Command: Activity Monitor
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Parent: WindowServer [68]
Version: 1.5.3 (58)
PID: 486
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit
Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Reason: image not found
Host Name: G-Four
Date/Time: 2008-09-18 19:02:53.323 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4
Command: Activity Monitor
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Parent: WindowServer [61]
Version: 1.5 (54)
PID: 236
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit
Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Reason: image not found
A library missing on BOTH machines?

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