{"id":414,"date":"2017-01-06T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2017-01-05T22:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:31:28","slug":"how-to-monitor-cpu-usage-on-your-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"How to monitor CPU usage on your MAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>top -F -R -o cpu<\/code><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Type that in the Terminal and you\u2019ll get a more efficient usage of top that uses less CPU itself, thanks to the flags. Here\u2019s an explanation of the flags:<\/div>\n<p>-F Do not calculate statistics on shared libraries, also known as frameworks.<br \/>\n-R Do not traverse and report the memory object map for each process.<br \/>\n-o cpu Order by CPU usage<\/p>\n<p>By using top with those flags I have reduced top CPU usage to 1% and it\u2019s also more appropriate for my needs. 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