Acitivity monitos showing some app i have no clue :(

[acidity]

My activity monitor is showing some application being running which I have no clue about....

mdimport
eapolclient
atsserver
pbs

What are they for?????

Also, my system memory says: 200MB Wired, 429MB active, 353MB Inactive and 43MB Free. Ihave a 1ghz MacBook....what do these numbers mean???

 

[WildCowboy]

mdimport is a Spotlight process...the "md" stands for "metadata."

eapolclient is related to wireless authentication.

atsserver is a font-management process.

pbs is the clipboard.


Here is Apple's article on how to read memory usage.

 

[acidity]

Thanks for the info but isnt Inactive Memory + Free still not very low...

I mean the real memory usage by applications is not that much but still I have only like 400MB as inactive or free????

 

[Chundles]

Thanks for the info but isnt Inactive Memory + Free still not very low...

I mean the real memory usage by applications is not that much but still I have only like 400MB as inactive or free????

You've got nothing to worry about. Everything is working normally.

 

[Eidorian]

My activity monitor is showing some application being running which I have no clue about....

mdimport
eapolclient
atsserver
pbs

What are they for?????

Also, my system memory says: 200MB Wired, 429MB active, 353MB Inactive and 43MB Free. Ihave a 1ghz MacBook....what do these numbers mean???

You know about 5 minutes searching online would have solved those questions. Just pasting the process name gets some really good explanations as to what they are.

 

[tcsdoc]

You know about 5 minutes searching online would have solved those questions. Just pasting the process name gets some really good explanations as to what they are.

I was thinking the same thing. When I see weird programs running on my Windows machine, Google is the first place I look. I've learned a great deal ab out both my Mac's and Windows operation from all the websites giving super detailed info.

Not slamming the guy, just making a helpful observation.