What does Now tell me?
One sentence on how your Mac is doing, the pressure line, and what would help most.
Now is where Procession opens.
- The headline answers in one sentence: Your Mac is calm, Memory is getting tight, Your Mac is short of memory, Your Mac is busy, but memory is fine, or Your Mac is hot and holding back.
- The readings beside it: memory in use, swap, processing (CPU) and heat.
- The pressure line shows the last ten minutes. What is memory pressure?
- Biggest right now lists the apps using the most. When memory is tight or short, it becomes What would help most, with about how much each would give back (≈, because macOS may keep some of it as cache).
- Reading explains what’s happening, and any process that’s busy for a reason, such as Spotlight indexing after an update.