#Mac terminal commands elapsed time pro

Then renice, which tells it to reset the nice setting of a specific application. So we’re going to type: sudo, which is super user do. We have to use the sudo command or “super user do,” which is basically a way of running a terminal command as the root user, which is a step above an admin user in macOS.

#Mac terminal commands elapsed time pro

And we’re going to tell it to “renice” Pro Tools. So now what we want to do is launch terminal through the search. That changes every time it launches, but for right now, and that’s how the macOS keeps track of what’s running. Here’s Pro Tools, and right now my process ID is 5832. And you go up to the search bar, and type in Pro Tools. This shows you everything that’s running on your Mac. With Pro Tools running, you bring up your search bar, and type in “activity monitor”, and launch that.

So the way we do that is we want to change the “nice” rating on Pro Tools with a terminal command known as “re-nice.” But before we do that you need to know the process ID of Pro Tools, and it’s really easy to find. And, when we’re dealing with Pro Tools, I like Pro Tools to be that kid on the playground that takes everything and won’t share. Now, “nice” settings can be anywhere from 20, which is extremely willing to give up resources to other applications, to -20, the equivalent of the kid who takes everything on the playground and doesn’t share with anybody. So they are all on equal footing in the eyes of my Mac. Every app launches with the same “nice” setting, which is zero. That’s n-i-c-e, nice, as in “plays nice with others”. And when applications launch in macOS, they’re all given what’s called a “nice” score. And I want my system to recognise Pro Tools as the most important thing running on my system. Pro Tools, as we know, is pretty CPU intensive.

Hey, this is Steve DeMott with Production Expert, and I’m going to go over a couple of macOS terminal commands that I use all the time when I’m working, and I really need to make sure the OS doesn’t get in my way.