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Not easily. A lot of the processes don’t have man pages or any other documentation. And they’re closed source so you never really know what they do.


In the past some of these were flaky and would hang using 100% cpu, I’d google “fspind 100% cpu” or whatever and find 20 other people with the same problem and zero info about what the process actually did.


Try sampling the process next time, I find it to be far more useful at finding the root cause.




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