"Finder" Process - File Browser on Mac

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∟"Finder" Process - File Browser on Mac

This section describes 'Finder' process, which allows you to browse and manage files of your Mac, iCloud Drive, and other storage devices.

What Is "Finder" Process? - "Finder" is the process launched by the "Finder" system app, which allows you to browse and manage files of your Mac, iCloud Drive, and other storage devices.

Here is what I did about "Finder" process.

1. View "Finder" process with "ps" command.

herong$ ps -A | grep Finder
  652 ?? 7:54.77 /System/Library/CoreServices
    /Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

2. Get resource usage info of "Finder" process. It's taking 192 MB of RAM, not too bad.

herong$ top -pid 652
...

PID  COMMAND %CPU TIME     #TH  #WQ  #POR MEM   PURG CMPRS PGRP PPID
652  Finder  0.0  07:54.89 9    1    411  111M  14M  106M  652  1