Activity Monitor
Developed by	Apple Computer
Latest release	10.5 (117) / 2007
OS	Mac OS X
Genre	Utility
License	Proprietary
Website	Mac OS X Website

Activity Monitor is a utility for performing different tasks to a computer process 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.

External links

• List of common processes on OS X