Activity Monitor

Activity Monitor

Infobox_Software | name = Activity Monitor



caption =
developer = Apple Computer
latest_release_version = 10.5 (117)
latest_release_date = 2007
operating_system = Mac OS X
genre = Utility
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.apple.com/macosx/ Mac OS X Website]

Activity Monitor is a utility for performing different tasks to a computer process in the Mac OS X operating system. Some of its functions include:

*Quitting or "killing" a computer process
*Viewing the computer's CPU load
*Checking the amount of random access memory in use or swapped out
*Checking the amount of hard disk read-ins and write-outs
*Checking the capacity of storage devices
*Monitoring the computer's network usage
*Inspecting running computer processes
*Viewing a process identifier number
*Viewing information about a particular process

Prior to Mac OS X v10.3, the Activity Monitor was named the Process Viewer.

External links

* [http://theprimepixel.com/list-of-mac-osx-common-processes List of common processes on OS X]


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