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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?

I know I can use Activity Monitor (as well as a slew of 3rd party applications) to monitor the usage of RAM and CPU on my Mac. However, I want to capture a log over an amount of time so that I can ...
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User activity monitoring open source software

I was wondering if there is open source project similar to this commercial product SpectorPro. I have been using it for some time now and I love how I can view all my activity as I would history in ...
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Viewing the full Skype chat history

I have Skype 2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. Under the the chat menu is an option called "Recent Chats". This allows me to see logs of recent chats, but not of older ones. I know the older ones are ...
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How to show private data in macOS unified log

I need to debug some problems regarding user login, but many somehow interesting information in the new unified log are hidden, like this (shortened): opendirectoryd[130]: [com.apple.opendirectoryd:...
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Mac ASL: Unable to see my application's log messages

I have just added ASL logging support to my application (a compiled binary) but I cannot see any log entries using Console.app. I am logging with facility 'com.mydomain.myapp' (that's not the actual ...
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OSX: Is there a log of connections?

I am the original owner of this question OSX log of connections? but unfortunately something went wrong and i had to create a new account, so here i am. The question is: I was wondering if Mac OS X is ...
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Mac OS Internet traffic log

Does anyone know a free tool that monitors my internet traffic and logs it in a day-by-day overview? I'm currently using iStat menus but the download meter resets itself after each reboot plus it ...
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Can I list file names (or their parent directories) that were recently deleted using rm in OS X?

Is it possible to find out which files and directories have recently been deleted by rm in OS X? Or failing that, is it possible to find which parent directories have had files or directories within ...
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