Video Transcript

Hi. I'm Skylar. And I'm going to show you how to adjust the priority of a process on a Mac. There are a lot of different utilities floating around out there but one that I found and really like is called atMonitor. One reason for liking it is that it's free so you can pick this up and explore it at no cost or risk. Here's what the interface looks like, pretty straightforward. A little bit like ActivityMonitor but with some more controls. So one thing that you'll notice over here is the CPU usage, Ram usage all that sort of stuff. The process of adjusting priority on a Mac is called renicing. So what we want to do is renice a particular process identity. So we'll click renice and we can drag this up so say here, click set and remember and that process has just been reniced. We see that the priority is now negative 10 which makes it actually highest amongst everything else here. Like if we scroll down we might see a really low like netbiosd, warmd. Both of those are very low priority processes. But this one definitely gets first call on system resources now. Thanks for watching. I'm Skylar.