Vratislav Holub The user can find out about the current workload of the Mac through the native Activity Monitor tool, which works practically the same as the iconic Task Manager from Windows. In the application environment, you can see which programs are consuming the CPU (processor), operating memory, consumption (battery), disk and network. You may also have noticed in the CPU category that some tools can overclock the system by more than 100%. But how is it actually possible? This is exactly what we will focus on in today's article.
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Flying around the world with Apple Sort by load
In the Activity Monitor, you can sort the individual processes according to the current workload, thanks to which you get a much better overview of them. In this case, the user is shown several columns with information, such as percentage load, time, number of threads and others. However, as we mentioned above, in some cases you may encounter a situation where the process uses the system over 100%, which theoretically does not make sense. But the trick is that Apple computers count every single processor core as 1, or 100%. Since all current Macs that are currently on sale have a multi-core processor, it is quite common to encounter this situation from time to time. So it's not a bug or anything that needs more attention.
Activity monitor as a great helper
Activity Monitor is generally a great helper for any Mac user. After all, as soon as you encounter any problems from the side of performance reduction, your steps should first be directed to this program, where you can instantly determine which application is behind it all. The advantage is that there is also a practical and simple graph in the lower part that informs about the current workload. This doesn't just apply to the CPU anyway. As we already mentioned above, the Activity Monitor can also provide you with the same information regarding the load on the operating memory, disk, network or consumption. Information about the use of the graphics processor can be found in the CPU category. You can read more about the Activity Monitor options in this article.
Activity Monitor in macOS
