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Activity Monitor with logging?
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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For diagnosing intermittent problems, is there any Activity Monitor variant with logging such that you can scroll back in time and see what spiked when XXX happened?
(e.g., my mouse stops moving for some strange reason... unfortunately, it never seems to do it while Activity Monitor is on top, so I can never see what's soaking up the CPU cycles when that happens.)
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Mac Nut since before color Macs, working for UT Austin Microcenter supporting Mac users
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: U.K.
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My mouse used to freeze because it was fed through a 4 way USB adaptor, removed adaptor, no more problems.
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iMac Intel Core i5, 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB 21.5" Monitor 10.8.3.
iMac 17" 2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo w 3gb memory (White one) 10.6.8.
Internal 500gb / 8x external HDD's 250GB - 3TB (4x Time Machine)
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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I also suspect a USB problem, but to answer your question: If you open the terminal, you can run the command top in logging mode. It's a bit tricky to get it to do what you want, so I suggest you read the man page, but in essence:
Code:
top -l 0 > logfile.txt
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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