Why does KM seem to quit working after a while?

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Fair enough. I'll give it a try tomorrow, or possibly tonight, if I get the time.

22

Thanks for the update.

23

If it is sufficiently sluggish, then you should use the Activity Monitor to see if it is using a large amount of memory, or if it is not memory try to sample the Keyboard Maestro Engine while it is running a macro sluggishly to see if that will find where it is spending its time.

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In the past I experienced something similar (See https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/excessive-keyboard-maestro-engine-memory-usage/30175/13)

By creating a cron entry like this:

* * * * * echo $( date  ;ps -axm -o rss,comm | grep "Keyboard Maestro Engine" | cut -d ' ' -f 1 )>> ~/Desktop/MemoryLog.txt

You will create a log file that will show the memory usage every minute.

Mon Aug 26 21:23:00 CEST 2024 113072
Mon Aug 26 21:24:00 CEST 2024 113104
Mon Aug 26 21:25:00 CEST 2024 113872
Mon Aug 26 21:26:00 CEST 2024 113312
Mon Aug 26 21:27:00 CEST 2024 113440

If you notice a sudden jump in memory consumption you can then check the file
~/Library/Logs/Keyboard Maestro/Engine.log
to figure out what macro had run at the given time. This should give you more insight to figure out what macro caused it and then hopefully you have enough information that will @peternlewis to fix it.

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Just reading this thread and my macbook completely locked up - weird.... :frowning:
Had to reboot.