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Activity Monitor is a task manager, a utility for performing different tasks to a computer processes, in the 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.

External links

• List of common processes on Mac OS X

References

1. "Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used". Apple. February 21, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
2. "Mac OS X: How to Find Background Applications". Apple. February 17, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2012.

• Apple Inc. software
• Mac OS X