Tag: Activity Monitor

May 22, 2010

ditto 100% CPU usage in Mac OS X

My MacBook Pro was starting to really drag it’s heels last night and a quick trip to the Activity Monitor revealed two copies of a process called “ditto” taking up 100% of the processor time on both cores! The ditto program is a command line tool for copying files and merging directories as well as extracting archives. Earlier in the...

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March 18, 2010

Activity Monitor in Snow Leopard

If you’re anything like me, then you like to keep your computer nice and neat and organised; this includes sorting all of my applications into categories so that they don’t clutter the place up in one big list. In Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard), this presents a bit of a problem as Activity Monitor can no long be...

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