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Can someone explain what Activity Monitor's 'Spindump' does?

Can someone explain what Activity Monitor's 'Spindump' does?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 3T Fusion, 16GigRAM, 2Gig-680MX

Posted on Nov 6, 2013 9:40 AM

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Nov 6, 2013 9:43 AM in response to Benny11

http://bit.ly/1b68kUF get me to:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man8/spindump.8.html

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Nov 6, 2013 10:04 AM in response to Tony T1

From reading that, my understanding is that it is used to manually force reporting only. It is not an active 'quit' or 'dump' of active processes.

Would that be correct in saying?

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