
To find Activity Monitor on a Mac, go to your Applications folder > Utilities folder, and then double-click Activity Monitor. In this article, I’m going to introduce you to Activity Monitor, and explain how this utility can help you find-and, in some cases, resolve-problems on your Mac. One of the tools you can use to troubleshoot problems on a Mac is Activity Monitor, a dashboard for many of your Mac’s under-the-hood activities. Narrowing down the cause of such problems can be difficult fortunately, macOS offers some troubleshooting tools you can use to diagnose what ails your computer. Sometimes some of your apps don’t work, your Mac gets slow, you get a spinning beachball, and more.

We never like to have problems with our computers, but they are inevitable. I couldn't find any information about this issue online.Software & Apps How to Use Activity Monitor to Troubleshoot Problems on a Mac

when using the web version on Safari (a bit easier on the CPU, but still abnormally high when idle)ġ) Disabling background sync in Chrome (site settings for ) and switch to other tabs when not actively using WrikeĢ) Minimizing the desktop app when not in use Google Chrome Helper (Renderer) when using the web version on Chrome Wrike Helper (Renderer) when using the app

This is also the case when Wrike or the browser are in the background (after switching to other windows), and does not seem to depend on the content being displayed (even on a single task open with no data in it triggers extremely high CPU usage).Īs for the actual process responsible for this (according to activity monitor): We tested Safari, Chrome and the latest version of the standalone app. Some colleagues and I are experiencing very high CPU usage (100% constant, even when idle) when using Wrike.
