Table Columns
The main table in the application displays various columns that provide essential information about each process. Below is a description of each column:
Process identifier. Changes to PID @ timestamp_last_seen when the process is finished.
This column along with process name contains the following information depending on current settings:
- Icon - shows process icon when available
- Process Finished indicator - pie chart showing how much time if left until the process disappears from the list
- Recording indicator - green dot shown when the process history is being recorded
- NEW badge - shown when the process started less than 30 seconds ago
- Indentation guides - shows one dot per level of hierarchy depth starting from the second level of depth
- CPU mini chart - shows CPU usage history over the last 30 seconds, from 0 to 100 percent for better readability
- Secondary value - shows one of the available secondary values depending on current settings
Command
Section titled “Command”Shows the full command used to start the process. Command string is truncated in the middle to fit the column width.
Shows CPU usage in percent. For multi-core systems, this value can exceed 100% with a maximum of (number of cores * 100)%.
Version
Section titled “Version”Shows the version of the process when available (CFBundleShortVersionString from Info.plist).
Resident Memory
Section titled “Resident Memory”Shows the resident memory usage in bytes. This is the portion of memory occupied by a process that is held in RAM. Equals to Real Memory in Activity Monitor.
Virtual Memory
Section titled “Virtual Memory”Shows the virtual memory usage in bytes. This is the total amount of memory that a process can access, including memory that is not currently in RAM. Equals to Virtual Memory in Activity Monitor
Shows the user owning the process.
Threads
Section titled “Threads”Shows the number of threads used by the process.
Prio / Nice
Section titled “Prio / Nice”Shows the priority and nice value of the process.
Aggregate values
Section titled “Aggregate values”When viewing processes in Hierarchy view and depending on the settings, aggregate values can be shown for CPU %, Resident Memory and Threads columns. These aggregate values always represent the sum of the respective metrics for a process and all its child processes regardless of the selected view type or filter.
Permissions
Section titled “Permissions”If the current user does not have sufficient permissions to access certain process information, some columns may display zero values or be empty. To view all process information, consider running the application with elevated privileges.