On Jul 26, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Mary Ann Sodrel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought I had found a wonderful answer to my problems and for me there are > many. The main one yesterday was ongoing for 5 days. I couldn’t get mail. I > could read emails, send mail, but I could not get mail. TWC was having > trouble helping me—in PI, of course. I happened upon My Fast PC listed in > subject. “Brody” did the good talk about how terrible my quantity of > processes is on the activity monitor then suggested his tech do a thorough > “cleaning.” How many precesses are too many? I have 347 active processes right now on an almost idle machine, and I don’t consider that excessive. That’s how Unix operating systems work; stuff is divided up into many small programs instead of a monolith. Windows is the opposite. Most of the time individual processes aren’t doing very much. To see which ones are doing stuff, in Activity Monitor, look at the column ‘% CPU’. This shows how much processor time is being take by each process. A whole bunch of processes taking a few percent each is no problem. You probably have a multi-processor system, so the percent used can add up to more than 100%. (With two processors, it can go to 200%, for example.) Instead of counting processes, look at the 'CPU Load’ graph. If it’s consistently pegged, then you might have a problem. Since you are having mail problems on multiple machines, I suspect there’s a problem on the other end or with a shared keychain. L^2 PS/ > I don’t know what happened for $147. You’re the fourth person I’ve encountered in the past couple of weeks to tell about paying a good chunk of money for one of these online fixit services. None have gotten much happiness from the transaction.
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