For companies that already have Microsoft SCCM in place, Parallels Mac Management allows administrators to maximize investments they’ve already made and use SCCM as the single pane of glass to manage both PCs and Macs.
- CTRL+SHIFT+ESC should bring up the task manager (does so in Boot Camp). Otherwise, parallels may have an option to set a key-binding to bring up task manager.
- I have build 5584 of Parallels Desktop 3.0, I'm a beginner at this, I'm running Win XPH on a Macbook Pro, and I cannot get the Windows Task Manager. I expected to get it with Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
Something's causing my Mac to bottleneck on startup and on wake. I'm curious if I can isolate this by leaving a monitor program running so I can see what's eating up the CPU.
How can I check CPU usage like Task Manager on Windows allows?
user34398942 Answers
The OS X equivalent of Windows Task Manager is Activity Monitor, located in /Applications/Utilities/, or typeActivity Monitor in Spotlight.
See Activity Monitor's internal Help: Activity Monitor > Help > Activity Monitor Help
For more information see Apple's Support Document: Use Activity Monitor on your Mac
Also, as mentioned by klanomath, for more specialized scenarios there is Instruments in Xcode. (Xcode > Developer Tools > Instruments)
Help for the Command Line version of Instruments, in a Terminal type: man instruments
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Or see Apple's Instruments User Guide.
user3439894user3439894In a simpler way, you can also use the UNIX command top which you can enter in a command line to show the top process eating your memory or CPU.
Feb 17, 2012 Hello, I recently bought a brand new macbook pro with 4 gbs of ram loaded. I installed parallels 7 and windows 7 for my cs5 applications. However, when I'm working in fireworks or photoshop for example, I keep running out of memory or get a message to free space up and/or close programs. Apr 20, 2018 Hi @KrzysztofI, the RAM used by Parallels is from the Mac as Parallels Desktop for Mac is an application installed on your Mac. If you are not using any major applications on Windows virtual machine, 8GB is enough to run Windows virtual machine smoothly. Hi, new to parallels, getting it soon. Will be running SolidWorks on Windows 7 a 3D cad program. It only uses one cpu so I am good with that. My question is my video card has 1500 mb ram and I have 16 gb system ram. Parallels for mac only uses some ram. Assigning more RAM than recommended may cause severe performance degradation of both Mac and virtual machine. Close the configuration window and feel free to start your virtual machine. To learn more and virtual RAM management in Parallels virtual machines please visit KB 122705.
To sort the process my memory usage, just use top -o MEM and if you want to sort the process by CPU usage, you can use top -o CPU.