How to find and neutralize the most power hungry applications and processes in OS X
Tips Makradar / / December 19, 2019
As you know, in OS X Mavericks have a great feature that allows you to easily keep track of applications with excessive energy consumption, through a pull-down menu "Battery". But in this case, as a rule, there is only one solution - close-gluttons application. In fact, it is not always necessary, and sometimes you can do a little blood and complete only the specific processes enraged application. Bright and affordable example - web browsers, such as the same Chrome. He often suffers from the fact that is listed hungry applications, although this does not mean the entire browser uses resources beyond measure. Most often, the blame for a certain tab or window, which runs some Javascript or the Flash-plugin. In this article, we will focus on how to find these processes and to complete them without interfering with the application and is preventing decrease battery life.
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How to complete the process consumes excessive amounts of resources
inset Energy - is a relatively new feature in monitoring system and is only available in OS X 10.9 and newer.
All we need to do in order to prevent discharge of the battery, is to complete the process work (or Force Quit). Process browser has a plurality of child processes and open tabs 10 may consume resources only one. It must be said that the forced termination of processes may entail unforeseen consequences, such as loss of unsaved data in an open application, so you need to understand what you are doing.
1. From any location or application in OS X open the drop-down menu Software with high energy consumption and see which apps you have gluttons list.
2. Select the application that consumes a lot of resources and click on it to open monitoring system.
3. IN monitoring system go to the tab Energy.
4. Choose to sort by of energeticTo the most power hungry applications have been top of the list.
5. Click on the "triangle" to open a list of child processes of the application.
6. We find the child process consumes the most energy, and click the button X for its completion.
7. Reaffirm cancelability (do not forget to save the data with which to work, in order to avoid their loss).
Within a few seconds (depending on the computer's response) energy efficiency indicator starts to fall. You can repeat these manipulations for other energy-intensive processes that consume large amounts of resources (CPU, memory, or read / disk write).
In the case of browsers, it is very easy to miss some tab that runs in the background and uses the flash, for example folded tab or window with Youtube. If you work with multiple windows and multiple tabs, such a scenario dlzhen be familiar to you.
In OS X 10.9 also appeared App Nap feature designed to optimize the performance of background processes, but in practice it does not always work well, especially for applications such as a browser. Therefore, it can sometimes be useful to "optimize" manual power, completing hungry processes. Also worth noting is that Chrome has a built-in task manager and it is also possible to monitor background processes. But it can block some of the processes, while the monitoring system always works.
Generally App Nap function and energy efficiency monitoring - these are two compelling reasons for users of mobile Macs should be updated to OS X Mavericks. As we have already experienced many of us - it can actually increase the battery life, in addition, in OS X 10.9 is more efficient due to other improvements.
On the stationary Macs App Nap function also works, but since there is no battery, it is more focused on performance improvement than on energy efficiency.
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