vksvicky / alfred2-top-workflow

Alfred 2 Top Processes Based Memory or CPU Usage Workflow

Alfred 2 Top Process Workflow

Alfred 2 Workflow to List/Kill Top Processes by Memory/Cpu Usage. The initial motive is to avoid frequent visits to the Activity Monitor when the fan goes loud.

Usage

A. Keywords:

1. top: Show a mixed processes list based on top cpu/memory usage.

• top /m, top /mem, top /memory to show processes ranked by memory usage
• top /c, top /cpu, to show processes ranked by cpu usage

1. kill: Filter process to kill.
2. lsof: List files opened by process id

B. Modifier Key

Keywords: top

1. none: The default action is to list files opened by process ID
2. ^ key to kill
3. ⌘ key to force kill (kill -9)
4. alt : nice cpu priority

Keywords: kill

1. none: The default action is to kill by process ID
2. ⌘ key to force kill (kill -9)

Keywords: lsof

1. none: The default action is to reveal file in Finder

C. Query

1. To search for process state, use :idle, :sleep, :stopped, :zombie, :uninterruptible, :runnable, etc.

Screenshots

1. Mixed Processes List:

2. Filtered By Query:

Installation

Two ways are provided:

1. You can download the Top Processes.alfredworkflow and import to Alfred 2. This method is suitable for regular users.

2. You can git clone or fork this repository and use rake install and rake uninstall to install. Check rake -T for available tasks. This method create a symlink to the alfred workflow directory: "~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows". This method is suitable for developers.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013 Zhao Cai [email protected]

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.