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Something I really loathe about OS X, and it has been becoming worse with time, is the amount of "processes" or whatever that suddenly take 100% CPU. There's no
by moralestapia 5y ago
Something I really loathe about OS X, and it has been becoming worse with time, is the amount of "processes" or whatever that suddenly take 100% CPU. There's no place to find out what they are.
What are they doing, are they from apple or not? You're hopeless, aside from some comments here and there from random members of the community.
To this day, I have no idea what 'powerd' is, for instance.
- the-dude 5y agoAnd you couldn't be bothered to do a cursory search? > There's no place to find out what they are. Google worked fine for me. YMMV.
- moralestapia 5y agoCould you please, then, point me to a creditable source regarding what 'powerd' is?
- the-dude 5y agoNo, I couldn't be bothered either.
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- wux 5y agoYou can use the 'man' command in Terminal to pull up the man page (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page) for 'powerd' (that is, by typing 'man powerd'). By doing so, you'll see that it is a "launchd managed daemon" that "manages Energy Preferences."
- tpush 5y ago> To this day, I have no idea what 'powerd' is, for instance. You're in luck, there's an extremely helpful and well written man page on exactly that subject. I will quote in its entirety: "NAME powerd -- Daemon that manages Energy Preferences. SYNOPSIS powerd is a launchd managed daemon. DESCRIPTION powerd is a launchd managed daemon."
- moralestapia 5y agoHaha, amazing.
- astrange 5y agoBesides the man page, the places to look are "spindump -stdout" and "log stream".