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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.

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. Chung, Jackson (September 10, 2008). "Macnifying OS X: Learning To Utilize Activity Monitor on Mac". MakeUseOf. MakeUseOf. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
3. "Mac OS X: How to Find Background Applications". Apple. February 17, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2012.

External links

• List of common processes on Mac OS X

• Apple Inc. software
• OS X