How can I distinguish a service form a process in Activity Monitor?











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Is there a way to determine if an entry listed in Activity Monitor is a service (daemon) or a process (application)?



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Is there a good definition of what these terms (that I'm using loosely) mean in OS X?






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    What do you want to do, once you know the difference? Services are often essential to the parent application process.
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    Please can you ask a new question for Does the application need to be built in specific way (e.g. no UI, implement certain interfaces) so it can be used as a service?` Ask Different works best when each question is asked separately. Feel free to refer to other questions in your new question.
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Is there a way to determine if an entry listed in Activity Monitor is a service (daemon) or a process (application)?



Examples:




  • Firefox (application)

  • com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper (daemon?)


Is there a good definition of what these terms (that I'm using loosely) mean in OS X?






macos activity-monitor







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    What do you want to do, once you know the difference? Services are often essential to the parent application process.
    – Graham Miln
    13 hours ago










  • I'm just trying to understand the architecture.
    – craig
    13 hours ago






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    Please can you ask a new question for Does the application need to be built in specific way (e.g. no UI, implement certain interfaces) so it can be used as a service?` Ask Different works best when each question is asked separately. Feel free to refer to other questions in your new question.
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Is there a way to determine if an entry listed in Activity Monitor is a service (daemon) or a process (application)?



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  • Firefox (application)

  • com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper (daemon?)


Is there a good definition of what these terms (that I'm using loosely) mean in OS X?






macos activity-monitor







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Is there a way to determine if an entry listed in Activity Monitor is a service (daemon) or a process (application)?



Examples:




  • Firefox (application)

  • com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper (daemon?)


Is there a good definition of what these terms (that I'm using loosely) mean in OS X?






macos activity-monitor




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    What do you want to do, once you know the difference? Services are often essential to the parent application process.
    – Graham Miln
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  • I'm just trying to understand the architecture.
    – craig
    13 hours ago






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    Please can you ask a new question for Does the application need to be built in specific way (e.g. no UI, implement certain interfaces) so it can be used as a service?` Ask Different works best when each question is asked separately. Feel free to refer to other questions in your new question.
    – Graham Miln
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    13 hours ago














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    What do you want to do, once you know the difference? Services are often essential to the parent application process.
    – Graham Miln
    13 hours ago










  • I'm just trying to understand the architecture.
    – craig
    13 hours ago






  • 1




    Please can you ask a new question for Does the application need to be built in specific way (e.g. no UI, implement certain interfaces) so it can be used as a service?` Ask Different works best when each question is asked separately. Feel free to refer to other questions in your new question.
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What do you want to do, once you know the difference? Services are often essential to the parent application process.
– Graham Miln
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What do you want to do, once you know the difference? Services are often essential to the parent application process.
– Graham Miln
13 hours ago












I'm just trying to understand the architecture.
– craig
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I'm just trying to understand the architecture.
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Please can you ask a new question for Does the application need to be built in specific way (e.g. no UI, implement certain interfaces) so it can be used as a service?` Ask Different works best when each question is asked separately. Feel free to refer to other questions in your new question.
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All Processes, Hierarchically



Activity Monitor can show the process hierarchy:



Activity Monitor.app > View (menu) > All Processes, Hierarchically



The grouping shows those processes launched by another process. Typically child-process will be services of the parent. On macOS many of these child processes will be XPC instances.



Services are Processes



On macOS, daemons are processes and services are processes. In your example, com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper, this is an XPC service.






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  • Why do all processes (except kernel_task) run as children of launchd?
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    This would make a great new question. The root process in macOS is launchd and Apple have decided to put almost every process launch through it. I suspect it has many benefits but those can be discussed in a new question.
    – Graham Miln
    13 hours ago










  • apple.stackexchange.com/questions/345639/…
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Technically speaking, anything that gets loaded and executed is a process; so a service is a process.



A service is a nuanced definition of something that gets loaded to provide a service like DHCP or DNS.



A alternative way to sum this up is all services are processes, but not all processes are services. An example would be Firefox, it's a process, but not a service - it's an application.






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    All Processes, Hierarchically



    Activity Monitor can show the process hierarchy:



    Activity Monitor.app > View (menu) > All Processes, Hierarchically



    The grouping shows those processes launched by another process. Typically child-process will be services of the parent. On macOS many of these child processes will be XPC instances.



    Services are Processes



    On macOS, daemons are processes and services are processes. In your example, com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper, this is an XPC service.






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    • Why do all processes (except kernel_task) run as children of launchd?
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      This would make a great new question. The root process in macOS is launchd and Apple have decided to put almost every process launch through it. I suspect it has many benefits but those can be discussed in a new question.
      – Graham Miln
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    All Processes, Hierarchically



    Activity Monitor can show the process hierarchy:



    Activity Monitor.app > View (menu) > All Processes, Hierarchically



    The grouping shows those processes launched by another process. Typically child-process will be services of the parent. On macOS many of these child processes will be XPC instances.



    Services are Processes



    On macOS, daemons are processes and services are processes. In your example, com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper, this is an XPC service.






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    • Why do all processes (except kernel_task) run as children of launchd?
      – craig
      13 hours ago






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      This would make a great new question. The root process in macOS is launchd and Apple have decided to put almost every process launch through it. I suspect it has many benefits but those can be discussed in a new question.
      – Graham Miln
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    • apple.stackexchange.com/questions/345639/…
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    All Processes, Hierarchically



    Activity Monitor can show the process hierarchy:



    Activity Monitor.app > View (menu) > All Processes, Hierarchically



    The grouping shows those processes launched by another process. Typically child-process will be services of the parent. On macOS many of these child processes will be XPC instances.



    Services are Processes



    On macOS, daemons are processes and services are processes. In your example, com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper, this is an XPC service.






    share|improve this answer














    All Processes, Hierarchically



    Activity Monitor can show the process hierarchy:



    Activity Monitor.app > View (menu) > All Processes, Hierarchically



    The grouping shows those processes launched by another process. Typically child-process will be services of the parent. On macOS many of these child processes will be XPC instances.



    Services are Processes



    On macOS, daemons are processes and services are processes. In your example, com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper, this is an XPC service.







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    • Why do all processes (except kernel_task) run as children of launchd?
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      This would make a great new question. The root process in macOS is launchd and Apple have decided to put almost every process launch through it. I suspect it has many benefits but those can be discussed in a new question.
      – Graham Miln
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    • apple.stackexchange.com/questions/345639/…
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    • Why do all processes (except kernel_task) run as children of launchd?
      – craig
      13 hours ago






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      This would make a great new question. The root process in macOS is launchd and Apple have decided to put almost every process launch through it. I suspect it has many benefits but those can be discussed in a new question.
      – Graham Miln
      13 hours ago










    • apple.stackexchange.com/questions/345639/…
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      13 hours ago
















    Why do all processes (except kernel_task) run as children of launchd?
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    Why do all processes (except kernel_task) run as children of launchd?
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    This would make a great new question. The root process in macOS is launchd and Apple have decided to put almost every process launch through it. I suspect it has many benefits but those can be discussed in a new question.
    – Graham Miln
    13 hours ago




    This would make a great new question. The root process in macOS is launchd and Apple have decided to put almost every process launch through it. I suspect it has many benefits but those can be discussed in a new question.
    – Graham Miln
    13 hours ago












    apple.stackexchange.com/questions/345639/…
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    apple.stackexchange.com/questions/345639/…
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    Technically speaking, anything that gets loaded and executed is a process; so a service is a process.



    A service is a nuanced definition of something that gets loaded to provide a service like DHCP or DNS.



    A alternative way to sum this up is all services are processes, but not all processes are services. An example would be Firefox, it's a process, but not a service - it's an application.






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      Technically speaking, anything that gets loaded and executed is a process; so a service is a process.



      A service is a nuanced definition of something that gets loaded to provide a service like DHCP or DNS.



      A alternative way to sum this up is all services are processes, but not all processes are services. An example would be Firefox, it's a process, but not a service - it's an application.






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        Technically speaking, anything that gets loaded and executed is a process; so a service is a process.



        A service is a nuanced definition of something that gets loaded to provide a service like DHCP or DNS.



        A alternative way to sum this up is all services are processes, but not all processes are services. An example would be Firefox, it's a process, but not a service - it's an application.






        share|improve this answer














        Technically speaking, anything that gets loaded and executed is a process; so a service is a process.



        A service is a nuanced definition of something that gets loaded to provide a service like DHCP or DNS.



        A alternative way to sum this up is all services are processes, but not all processes are services. An example would be Firefox, it's a process, but not a service - it's an application.







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