![]() ![]() When it appears in Spotlight, hit Return to launch it. You'll notice there are five tabs across the top of the Activity Monitor window: CPU, Energy, Memory, Disk, and Network. Clicking on any of those tabs organizes processes according to the percentage of the resource they are using. So, clicking on CPU lists tasks in the order of how much CPU capacity they're using. By default, processes are ordered starting with the one that's consuming the most of the resource at the top, so you can quickly see where problems are occurring or likely to occur. To flip the order, so that processes consuming the least of the resource are at the top, click the arrow next to Memory or CPU above the list of processes. When you identify a process that's causing a problem, either because it's hogging lots of CPU cycles or memory, or because it's highlighted in the Activity Monitor as having crashed, you need to kill it. To do that, click on the process first and then on the X in the Activity Monitor toolbar. The process will quit and free up the resources it was taking up. If it's a critical process, it will restart. If you prefer working with Terminal, you can also use it to quit processes: How to shut down processes using Terminal If it's an application, it will remain shut down. Press Command and spacebar to pull up Spotlight then start typing Terminal. When the Terminal app appears in Spotlight, tap Return to launch it. Alternatively, navigate to the Utilities folder in Applications and double-click Terminal. When Terminal has launched, type "top" into the Terminal window. You'll see a list of currently running processes. ![]() At the top of the list is an overview of the processes that are running and the resources they're consuming. When you identify a process that's causing a problem or consuming too many resources, take note of the number in the PID column next to the name of the process. This will terminate Google Chrome browser instantly.To kill the process, type "kill -9" followed by the PID number. Go ahead and type in the following command in Terminal: kill 9635 Note that the PID number for Google Chrome is 9635. The full command would look like this: ps -ax | grep Īnd in our case, it will be something like this: ps -ax | grep ChromeĪnd it should output the following in Terminal: Now, let’s say we want to force quit Google Chrome, we can make use of the grep command in conjunction with our ps -ax to get exactly the information about the process we want. Upon typing in ps -ax, you may get a long list of output of running processes that look something like the screenshot below: ![]()
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