Activity Monitor: cut, grep, and sh

Reimer

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 25, 2006

• #1

I'm viewing my Activity Monitor with "My Processes" mode selected.

Every couple of seconds, the processes "cut, grep, and sh" pop up and disappear. What are those processes doing exactly?

 

2nyRiggz

macrumors 603

• Sep 25, 2006

• #2

What programs do you have running when this pops up and is it giving you any problems?





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Reimer

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 25, 2006

• #3

azureus
coreduotemp
firefox (bon echo)
SteerMouse Manager

/edit

Okay I guess coreduotemp is the culprit. Just wasn't sure what those processes were doing.

 

Reimer

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 25, 2006

• #4

okay anyone want to explain another part of Activity Monitor, specifically the Memory usage part.

I've got 1GB of ram installed. Activity Monitor currently shows 834mb under "Used". What do "Wired", "Active", and "Inactive" indicate?

 

Freg3000

macrumors 68000

• Sep 25, 2006

• #5

Reimer said:

okay anyone want to explain another part of Activity Monitor, specifically the Memory usage part.

I've got 1GB of ram installed. Activity Monitor currently shows 834mb under "Used". What do "Wired", "Active", and "Inactive" indicate?

Click to expand...

Apple says it best:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107918

 

Reimer

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 25, 2006

• #6

Freg3000 said:

Apple says it best:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107918

Click to expand...

perfect .. thanks 😀

 

2nyRiggz

macrumors 603

• Sep 25, 2006

• #7

Read this thread, it might help you understand.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/210301/

Nevermnd...you got the help🙂

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dsnort

macrumors 68000

• Sep 25, 2006

• #8

I had exactly this same issue. It's coreduo temp. Those processes that pop up and go away are the app accessing the core to read the temp, or something like that. Close coreduo temp, and it will stop.