Activity Monitor

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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