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| Developer(s) | Apple Computer |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 10.7 (710) / October 12, 2011 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Utility |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Mac OS X Website |
Activity Monitor is a task manager, a utility for performing different tasks to a computer processes, 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.
See also
Activity Monitor is the Mac OS X counterpart of Microsoft's Windows Task Manager for Windows. However, some aspects of quitting stalled applications are divided between Apple Menu Force Quit and Activity Monitor.
