[G4] Speaking of Activity Monitor - What is TruBlueEnvironment???

[J. R. Rosen]

Many thanks to Charles Schneider & Jim Carbone - accurate, helpful  
and speedy replies!!!

So it's OS 9 that's the culprit... hmm, if it wasn't for Pagemaker I  
wouldn't need Classic!

Oh well, some things you just have to live with.

THANKS AGAIN FOR THE HELP!!  This list rox!!!

On Jul 26, 2006, at 1:31 PM, jim carbone wrote:

> Hi J.R.,
> The following page is referenced within the site that I was  
> referred to yesterday to help with my issue:
> http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/background-processes.html
> It has a pretty comprehensive list of what those processes are and  
> lists TruBlueEnvironment as:
> "The Classic (OS 9 compatibility) environment. This single process  
> includes OS 9 and all running classic applications. The name  
> derives from an early Apple code-name for the Classic environment:  
> "the Blue Box". For some reason, Activity Monitor (under Mac OS X  
> v10.3) has trouble reading this process's name, and tends to  
> display it as "(null)"."
> HTH,
> --jim
>
> On Jul 26, 2006, at 12:44 PM, J. R. Rosen wrote:
>> GOOD MORNING LISTERS!!!
>> In Activity Monitor, there is a memory-hog called  
>> TruBlueEnvironment that is sucking-up 74.1% of CPU and chewing on  
>> 148.87mb of RAM - AND - swallowing 1.20GB (Yes, 1.20 GIGABYTES) of  
>> Virtual Memory!!!
>> It's nearest competitor is "WindowServer" @ 6.4% of CPU; 136.59mb  
>> RAM & 394.15mb V-Memory.
>> Question: Does anyone know what-the-heck "TruBlueEnvironment" is,  
>> and what it's used for???
>> My Mac is a QuickSilver, 2002 - OS 10.4.7 - 1.5gb RAM - 250gb  
>> HDD* / 200gb HDD / 80gb HDD (*System HDD).
>> Inquiring minds want to know!
>>
>> TIA,
>> J. R. Rosen

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