A trial is available, but the app only costs $9.ġ. It also allows for real-time monitoring of Internet traffic. Radio Silence is a paid app that allows you to block Internet access for specific applications and processes. Replace that with the process number of the app you want to kill. That particular command would kill Spotify, which is PID 410 at the moment. You can use the PID to kill a misbehaving application with a Terminal command like kill 410. This shows the process identifier (PID) for each application as well as each application’s resource path.ĥ. Hold the Alt/Option key on your keyboard while clicking the Loading menu bar icon to reveal a much more detailed dropdown menu. Under “Loaded,” on the other hand, you’ll see apps that recently finished downloading content.Ĥ. Under “Loading” you’ll see applications currently loading content over your Internet connection. Click on the Loading icon to reveal a dropdown menu. This indicates that there is traffic on your network.ģ. If your Internet connection is currently active, you’ll notice a new addition to your menu bar: a spinning loading icon. Download and install Loading from the developer’s website.Ģ. All this lives in a tiny menu bar app, and it’s free, too!ġ. It also displays the apps that have recently used your Internet connection and has options for detailed breakouts of traffic. Loading is a free menu bar application that monitors the applications currently using your Internet connection. You can also click on other column titles to sort by data received and packets sent and received.
To see the most active processes, click the column titled “Sent Bytes” to see the processes sorted in order of amount of data sent.Ĥ. Click the “Network” tab at the top of the Activity Monitor window.ģ. Open Activity Monitor from “/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app” or type “Activity Monitor” into Spotlight.Ģ. If you want an extremely rough overview of the apps using your network connection, you can find that under the Network tab in Activity Monitor.ġ.
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