Marc,<div><br></div><div>I assume you are referring to "/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor"? As I understand "Activity Monitor" doesn't really store historical data, and can only list data that it's seen since you launched it, and/or info it can query from the kernel. However I could be wrong. Here is the list of files that "Activity Monitor" holds open.:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>$ lsof -p 158</div><div>COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta cwd DIR 14,2 1190 2 /</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 481680 1821547 /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 1250592 1713351 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 3144 1682994 /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 28564 1686910 /System/Library/Fonts/Keyboard.ttf</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 811436 1683523 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SArtFile.bin</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 13993264 1688285 /usr/share/icu/icudt40l.dat</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 460976 1693001 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Resources/GLRendererFloat.bundle/GLRendererFloat</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 2414697 1686908 /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 559995 1686914 /System/Library/Fonts/Monaco.dfont</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 4431872 5042099 /private/var/folders/pU/pUKt48bXGN8gH5JVmeMHNk+++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.LaunchServices-025501.csstore</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 5425538 1687842 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 1757684 1686912 /System/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.ttc</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 802460 1691736 /System/Library/Keyboard Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.dat</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 5236560 1692999 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Resources/GLEngine.bundle/GLEngine</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 7944096 2763912 /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce8xxxGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libclh.dylib</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 144580 1687844 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIToolbox.rsrc</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 490410 1687831 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 5946480 1683518 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ArtFile.bin</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 13972240 2763911 /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce8xxxGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GeForce8xxxGLDriver</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 1054960 1700909 /usr/lib/dyld</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta txt REG 14,2 197410816 2764561 /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta 0r CHR 3,2 0t0 303 /dev/null</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta 1 PIPE 0x0d4367d0 16384 ->0x0d436834</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta 2 PIPE 0x0d4367d0 16384 ->0x0d436834</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta 3r REG 14,2 163 1717953 /private/etc/security/audit_control</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta 4u KQUEUE count=1, state=0x2</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta 5r REG 14,2 5425538 1687842 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta 6r REG 14,2 144580 1687844 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/HIToolbox.rsrc</div><div>Activity 158 bgupta 7r REG 14,2 490410 1687831 /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Localized.rsrc</div>
<div>Activity 158 bgupta 89r REG 14,2 611 1717952 /private/etc/security/audit_class</div><br></div><div>- Brian Gupta</div><div><br>New York City user groups calendar:<br><a href="http://nyc.brandorr.com/">http://nyc.brandorr.com/</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Marc Spitzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mspitzer@gmail.com">mspitzer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I know that, I am looking for where the data files are stored.<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
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marc<br>
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Brian Cully <<a href="mailto:bcully@gmail.com">bcully@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> For longer term stuff you can always use MRTG or its ilk. However, my<br>
> uses tend more to the immediate conditions, and both MenuMeters and iStat<br>
> Menus are excellent for at-a-glance analysis (and they also have stuff like<br>
> CPU, memory usage, and MenuMeters has swap rates.)<br>
><br>
> -bjc<br>
><br>
> On 13-Oct-2009, at 12:43, Marc Spitzer wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> There is a gui that gives you network usage graph on osx, does anyone<br>
>> know where the data is stored that is used to draw the chart, and if<br>
>> possible what format it is in? This is for 10.4 and 10.5.<br>
>><br>
>> thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> marc<br>
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