Activity Monitor is the name of a utility for performing different tasks to a computer process in the Mac OS X operating system. Some of it's many functions include: In computing, a process is, roughly speaking, a task being run by a computer, often simultaneously with many other tasks. ... Mac OS X (pronounced Mac OS Ten) is the latest version of the Macintosh operating system, and is designed and developed by Apple Computer to run on their Macintosh line of personal computers. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ...

• 'Killing' a computer process
• Viewing the computer's CPU Load
• Checking the amount of random access memory in use
• Checking the amount of hard disk read-ins and write-outs.
• Checking the capacity of many types digital storage devices
• Checking the computer's network usage
• Inspecting running computer processes
• Viewing a process identifier number

Activity Monitor was updated in Mac OS X v10.3, and prior to Mac OS 10.3, the application program was named Process Viewer. In computing, a process is, roughly speaking, a task being run by a computer, often simultaneously with many other tasks. ... Load is what is carried, or a force. ... Random access memory (sometimes random-access memory), commonly known by its acronym RAM, is a type of computer storage whose contents can be accessed in any (i. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... In computing, the process identifier (normally referred to as the process ID or just PID) is a number used by some operating system kernels (such as that of UNIX or Windows NT) to uniquely identify a process. ... A screenshot of Mac OS X v10. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...