This will pull up a list of all your currently running processes. When Terminal is running, type top and hit Return. Launch Terminal (Finder > Applications > Utilities). Type ‘kill -9’ followed by the PID number. Locate the process in Activity monitor, look for the entry in the PID column and launch Terminal. Launch Activity Monitor, locate the application and press the ‘x’ in the toolbar. How do I find the PID of a process on a Mac? For example: At the command prompt type ps -ax | grep. It can be used in conjunction with the ps -ax command to list only the process that you are interested in. One very useful command to help find a process by name or PID is grep which can filter out the desired information.
Then it will popup a dialog and show the selected process’s CPU usage, memory usage, parent process, Open Files and Ports and other statistical information.If you want to see a specified process’s detailed information, you can click the Inspect selected process button beside the Stop button.Click the Force Quit or Quit button to stop the process.When you click the stop button, it will prompt a confirm dialog that contains 3 buttons ( Cancel, Force Quit, Quit ).Click the Stop button on the window top left corner to stop it.
Click the process that you want to stop or diagnose in the mac Activity Monitor window.1.2 How To Stop ( Force Quit ), Inspect, Or Diagnostic A Mac Process.
In the other tabs, each row represents a process.In the Energy tab, each row represents a mac app.There are 5 tabs in the window, they are CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk, Network.It will list all the processes that are currently running for the login user.Then it will open the Activity Monitor (My Processes) window.Click the Utilities -> Activity Monitor item on the window’s right side.Then click the Applications item on the window’s left side.1.1 The Steps To Open Task Manager On Mac.