Activity Monitor
Not to be confused with Activity tracker.
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Activity Monitor on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite | |
| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Stable release | 10.11 / August 23, 2015[1] |
| Operating system | OS X |
| Type | System monitor |
| License | Proprietary |
Activity Monitor is a system monitor for the OS X operating system, which also incorporates task manager functionality.[2][3] 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
Activity Monitor appeared in Mac OS X v10.3, when it subsumed the functionality of the programs Process Viewer (a task manager) and CPU Monitor found in the previous version of OS X.[4][5]
In OS X 10.9, Activity Monitor was significantly revamped and gained a 5th tab for "energy" (in addition to CPU, memory, disk, and network).[6]
See also
- Resource Monitor for Microsoft Windows
References
- ↑ "OS X 10.10 Yosemite release date". Retrieved 16 November 2014.
- ↑ "Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used". Apple. February 21, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
- ↑ Chung, Jackson (September 10, 2008). "Macnifying OS X: Learning To Utilize Activity Monitor on Mac". MakeUseOf. MakeUseOf. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
- ↑
- ↑ Brad Miser (2004). Special Edition Using Mac OS X, V10.3 Panther. Que Publishing. p. 926. ISBN 978-0-7897-3075-6.
- ↑ http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57609748-263/activity-monitor-in-os-x-mavericks-brings-significant-changes/
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