site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com This isn't a Darwin-level question. It's a daemon that performs system analysis on behalf of the Activity Monitor.app GUI application. If you don't want it to take CPU, don't run Activity Monitor. top(1) uses a similar percentage of CPU. Shantonu On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Joel Reymont wrote:

What does activitymonitord do?

I frequently see it taking 8% of the CPU or more.

Thanks, Joel

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