CommunityNews

CommunityNews

Vitals: a tiny macOS process monitor

Vitals is a little Mac app I built recently that shows you which programs are slowing your computer down. It lives in the menu bar, keeping track of resource usage in the background, so you can summon it instantly at the click of a button.

While other tools like Activity Monitor show you each process’ current CPU usage, Vitals shows a per-process CPU graph covering the last 60 seconds. This makes it much easier to track down apps that misbehave sporadically…

This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.

Most Liked

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Not yet but bookmarked it. Not sure I need it; iStat Menus works just fine for that as well.

Popular Mac Os topics Top

AstonJ
What was it? What language did you use? How did you find the experience?
New
AstonJ
When I purchased this Mac it was fast. However some months on and it is noticeably slower now, and where I notice it most is on starting ...
New
New
OvermindDL1
So it seems that Apple removed the network firewall API a while back and replaced it with another, firewall apps adapted, and come to fin...
New
First poster: bot
MacOS Nix Setup (an alternative to Homebrew). I recently got a new Macbook, and began setting up the Nix package manager to install my d...
New
AstonJ
Apparently Apple is working on new Mac Pros that will be half the size of current Mac Pros… As part of the transition to Apple Silicon,...
New
AstonJ
A statement from Apple regarding recent privacy concerns… Privacy protections macOS has been designed to keep users and their data safe...
New
siddhant3030
I have a new MacBook Pro which I’m connecting to an external monitor. I know why it is heating but I want to know if anyone having the sa...
New
AstonJ
As requested by @DevotionGeo, a thread about Apple’s patent regarding a new reconfigurable keyboard… Last month, Apple patented a ne...
New
New

Other popular topics Top

ohm
Which, if any, games do you play? On what platform? I just bought (and completed) Minecraft Dungeons for my Nintendo Switch. Other than ...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
A PragProg Hero’s Journey with Brian P. Hogan @bphogan Have you ever worried that your only legacy will be in the form of legacy...
New
dasdom
No chair. I have a standing desk. This post was split into a dedicated thread from our thread about chairs :slight_smile:
New
AstonJ
We have a thread about the keyboards we have, but what about nice keyboards we come across that we want? If you have seen any that look n...
New
AstonJ
There’s a whole world of custom keycaps out there that I didn’t know existed! Check out all of our Keycaps threads here: https://forum....
New
Help
I am trying to crate a game for the Nintendo switch, I wanted to use Java as I am comfortable with that programming language. Can you use...
New
First poster: bot
The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem. TL;DR: I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlle...
New
New
AstonJ
Chris Seaton, the creator of TruffleRuby has died. It appears from suicide :cry: He left this note on Twitter on the weekend: And one...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
A Ruby-Centric Chat with Noel Rappin @noelrappin Once you start noodling around with Ruby you quickly figure out, as Noel Rappi...
New