Activity Monitor

Let's start off with a doctor checkup on your Mac.

If you're on your Mac and you open up Activity Monitor and you click Memory, you can actually literally see the memory pressure graph while the work you care about is running with agents.

And it comes in colors, right? Green means it's doing okay.

Yellow and red mean the machine is struggling.

the OS in that place.

So you can, you can figure out exactly what the problem is, um, quite quickly without, uh, delving into lots of, uh, logs and, uh, uh, and, um, e- event viewing type options and so on, and, and drilling into, uh, uh, Activity Monitor.

Um-

Which is your friend.

Activity Monitor is your friend.

Activity Monitor-

Yes

... is your friend, yes.

Uh, Darryl, uh, Darryl Saunier says, I like TMog, but couldn't we have diagnosed any of these issues with the normal task manager?

Well, in most cases, especially on the Mac, it would take Activity Monitor and IOSTAT and VMSTAT and a whole bunch of tools and different applets to try and gather that information, whereas the whole point of TMUG was to kind of unify all that information and bring it to you in one summary page so you can see CPU, memory, history, thermals, power limits, all kinds of things in one place, networking, disk IEO, all of that in one place at one time.

So...

Is it true all that information is available elsewhere, elseways? Yes.

Oh, that'd be kind of neat to add

to it.

Yeah, I answered a bug today for a scenario where I was trying to solve something, and T-Mog couldn't handle it, and neither could Activity Monitor, for that matter.

But since I was able to do it with the command line, there's no excuse.