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

[Wayne Wilkin]

Just happened upon your post. Do you have CS2? InDesign CS2 will open  
those old PageMaker files!

On Jul 26, 2006, at 6:14 PM, J. R. Rosen wrote:

> 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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