activity-monitor

Activity monitor not responding

when i'm calling the below function in a time interval of 1 second, it would cause Not Responding in Activity Monitor, anyone can tell me why and suggest a solution? NSWorkspace* workspace = [NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace]; NSDictionary* currentAppInfo = [workspace activeApplication]; //get the PSN of the current app UInt32 lowLon...

Blank screen when looking at Activity Monitor details

I'm looking at the Activity Monitor in SQL Server 2005 and when I double click a specific process to view the SQL I am given a blank screen. What does this mean? What could be causing this? ...

Activity Monitor Problems in SQL Server 2005

I am looking at the Activty Monitor for SQL Server 2005 and we have some processes that are taking up large amounts of the CPU. When I look at what is trying to be run I get: set transaction isolation level read committed This code is not coming from any of our applications. What is causing it? What should be done? ...

Can I kill this process?

Possible Duplicate: Activity Monitor Problems in SQL Server 2005 I have some processes running on my database server that are taking up enourmous amount of CPU. When I view the detail about the process I get: set transaction isolation level read committed The other details include: Status: Sleeping Open Transactions: 0 Com...

Sample a process on Mac OS X from a C/C++ program

The Sample Process feature in Activity Monitor is quite a useful thing. However, I need to do the same thing (take samples) of a certain process from another running process (C/C++) or a command line. Is there any way to do this? I have been googling for this since a few days without any luck. ...

Xcode Instruments: peak RAM of iPhone apps running in Simulator?

Is Activity Monitor (a.k.a. Memory Monitor) the only tool in Xcode Instruments that can measure the total app RAM usage of an iPhone app running in Simulator? Just that line showing momentary wired RAM? And how accurate is that versus iPhone hardware, especially given OSX paging i/o to VM? I'm seeing 7-8MB wired RAM figures for just th...

How do you decide what process to kill in SQL Server Activity Monitor?

Hi, I am not a Db guy. But sometimes I am asked to check Db and see if there are some processes blocking the Db and if yes, KILL! Can you explain me what is the best way of reading the Activity Monitor in terms of finding the right process candidates to be killed? What columns to be checked first and against what values? thank you, ...