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What is Activity Monitor?
Activity Monitor is a Mac OS X utility that provides runtime details about a Mac's CPU (processor), System Memory, Disk Activity, Disk Usage, and Network.
Activity Monitor makes it easy to:- View active processes
- Inspect active processes
- Determine the Process ID (PID) of a process
- Quit and kill processes
- View the load on the CPU
- View the memory usage and size by type (free, wired, active, inactive, used)
- View hard disk metrics such as reads, writes, and performance
- View the utilized and free space of hard disks
- Monitor network usage and metrics (packets)
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