Apple's system process viewer gets an interface reorganization, and offers new views of the impact of applications and services running on your Mac. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

You can easily keep tabs on what's running on your Mac and get things running smoothly by using Apple's Activity Monitor. Here's how to get started. Most applications running on UNIX-based systems are ...

If you’re a command line enthusiast and you’re the type of Mac user who likes to keep an eye on your system resources and ...

Activity Monitor is Mac OS's process manager, similar in function to Windows Task Manager. In this utility you can see every process running on your computer, how much memory it is using, stop ...

With UNIX having many tasks running simultaneously, through the years developers have incorporated several command-line tools that allow for live process management ...

Here’s an amazingly simple Tuesday tip concerning Activity Monitor (in the Applications -> Utilities folder). As you may know, you can use Activity Monitor to quit a stuck application, examine CPU ...

The TechPwn blog describes how to monitor your Mac's system activity right on your dock. While OS X's built-in Mac Activity Monitor is running, you can change its dock icon to a constantly-updating ...