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Posted by ingve 23 hours ago

Process Explorer for macOS(github.com)
86 points | 35 comments
jollyllama 2 hours ago|
How's it compare to Objective See's TaskExplorer? [0]

[0] https://objective-see.org/products/taskexplorer.html

FLeXMurphy 1 hour ago|
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jollyllama 33 minutes ago|||
> vibe coded

v2.0.2 released in 2019 [0]

But if you're just talking about the landing page, personally, I like the mid-Web 2.0 era aesthetic.

[0] https://github.com/objective-see/TaskExplorer/commit/50a797d...

harrylepotter 30 minutes ago|||
what a horrible thing to say about someone's free tool. If you looked before casting judgement you'd see that this has commits that date back to 2016: https://github.com/objective-see/TaskExplorer/commits/main/
mzs 2 hours ago||
https://github.com/microsoft/Procexp-Mac/issues/1

This repo is missing a LICENSE file #1

Open

Description @microsoft-github-policy-service bot opened on Jul 9

teh_klev 1 hour ago||
There's an episode of "Scott and Mark Learn" where Mark Russinovich (the creator of the original Process Explorer and other SysInternals tools) talks about how he created Process Explorer for MacOS with Scott Hanselman:

https://youtu.be/U-_Y9PX_ESI

kburman 3 hours ago||
I've been working on something similar for Linux, in Rust with egui. It reads from /proc, cgroups, systemd over D-Bus and the netlink proc connector, so it also catches processes that start and exit between refreshes. It runs without root, and anything it can't read just shows "—".

Check screenshot here - https://postimg.cc/gallery/CMczmdh/ceda7197

donutdonot 1 hour ago|
I'd love to have a processexp for Linux! There's just nothing quite like it out there :-/
jherskovic 3 hours ago||
Installed it. Pretty straight port UI-wise, it seems like it would be very useful. It doesn’t look ‘Mac’ at all, but for developer tooling that gets a pass from me.

I couldn’t see details for some processes, which was reasonable since I wasn’t running as root. I installed the privileged helper that came with the process… and now the process tree is empty.

Maybe it needs a little more time in the oven?

gwbas1c 1 hour ago|
> It doesn’t look ‘Mac’ at all

It's a port from the Windows version, which is exceptionally popular. On Windows, I haven't opened up Task Manager in years. (And I plan to install this the next time I use my Mac.)

kristiandupont 2 hours ago||
This feels like a decent place to plug one of my vibe-coded side projects Mac Monitor: https://kristiandupont.github.io/mac-monitor/

I made this mostly because I wanted something to signal to me that the CPU is running wild. With no fan, I often discover this a bit late, so I wanted just a very subtle indicator in the menu bar. I also added a UI in the browser which shows you some details, though nothing near the level of Process Explorer.

bradknowles 1 hour ago||
I use iStat Menus for this. An excellent series of tools that lets you monitor just about everything that can be monitored on your Mac.

App Tamer will help you keep unruly apps under control, forcing them to run on efficiency cores instead of performance cores, slowing them down if they eat up more than X% of your CPU, stopping them entirely if they are in the background, and so much more.

The combo of iStat Menus and App Tamer is what makes it tolerable for me to have a MacBook Air as the primary laptop I use these days.

hmokiguess 1 hour ago||
I love the menubar UI idea!
vondur 3 hours ago||
This looks like a port of the process explorer from the Sysinternals suite of tools that people like under windows. I think I also saw something similar to this from Dave Plummer ex Microsoft Dev. at tmog.org.
zamadatix 2 hours ago||
Seems like a safe bet that's what it is since "Sysinternals Process Explorer for Mac" is the opening title of the README :D.

Certain things like Sysinternals tools outside of their native platforms is somethnig I hope to see more of. E.g. I had a SumatraPDF and 7z GUI clone on Linux for a while just because I liked it more than the Linux PDF readers (now I have a home grown app which handles more formats). It looks like this one could use a bit more time in the oven though.

flowrange 1 hour ago||
Well, if you look at the commit history, the first ones are authored by Mark Russinovich himself.
Topfi 2 hours ago||
Might actually start using that, had a few processes on macOS 27 get into infinite loops and causing massive load, especially Safari PIDs. Being able to kill full trees, see children and look at the resources taken, might be useful. Shame that Activity Monitor is so bare in features and even takes a surprising amount of time to load.

On a related note, macOS 27 is an extremely buggy, unpredictable mess and you should feel annoyed when using it. Amazing how they can have such great hardware, ham strung by poor software QA and doubly so since this has been an issue on every Mac I have ever used going back to 2009. macOS occasionally gets a bug squashing pass, but just as fast as we get a Snow Leopard, an unstable Lion follows. Also, hotspot and WiFi generally are still utterly unreliable.

mannycalavera42 2 hours ago||
- sort by CPU seems not working - clicking on the Processes column is not switching between tree view and flatview
hparadiz 2 hours ago|
Been working on this for Linux for the past 10 months. Inspired by procexp but better. I even have it working remotely over an SSH socket.

https://evemon.technex.us/

https://github.com/hparadiz/evemon

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