Activity Monitor
Encyclopedia
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:
Prior to Mac OS X v10.3
, the Activity Monitor was named the Process Viewer.
for Windows
.
However, some aspects of quitting stalled applications are divided between Apple Menu Force Quit and Activity Monitor.
How do you use it? Pleas edit this when someone knows.
Task manager
A task manager is a program used to provide information about the processes and programs running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer. It can also be used to terminate processes and programs, as well as change the processes priority...
, a utility for performing different tasks to a computer processes, in the Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
. Some of its functions include:
- Quitting or "killing" a computer process
- Viewing the computer's CPU loadLoad (computing)In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average system load over a period of time...
- Checking the amount of random access memory in use or swapped outDisk swappingDisk swapping refers to the practice of inserting and removing, or swapping, floppy disks in a floppy disk drive based computer system. In the early days of personal computers, before hard drives became commonplace, most fully outfitted computer systems had 2 floppy drives addressed as A: and B: on...
- Checking the amount of hard diskHard diskA hard disk drive is a non-volatile, random access digital magnetic data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the...
read-ins and write-outs - Checking the capacity of storage devices
- Monitoring the computer's network usage
- Inspecting running computer processes
- Viewing a process identifierProcess identifierIn computing, the process identifier is a number used by most operating system kernels to uniquely identify a process...
number - Viewing information about a particular process
Prior to Mac OS X v10.3
Mac OS X v10.3
Mac OS X Panther is the fourth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" and preceded Mac OS X Tiger...
, the Activity Monitor was named the Process Viewer.
See also
Activity Monitor is the Mac OS X counterpart of Microsoft's Windows Task ManagerWindows Task Manager
Windows Task Manager is a task manager application included with the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that provides detailed information about computer performance and running applications, processes and CPU usage, commit charge and memory information, network activity and...
for Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
.
However, some aspects of quitting stalled applications are divided between Apple Menu Force Quit and Activity Monitor.
How do you use it? Pleas edit this when someone knows.