[DEMUG] CPU Utilization

Dick Atlee atlee at umd.edu
Fri Jan 18 23:06:42 EST 2008


Thanks, Roy.  I don't have Process Viewer.  Activity Monitor does seem 
to do most of it, but the little double graphic display of CPU 
utilization doesn't match either the figures to its left or the data in 
the table above.  Is it just a decoration?

Roy Atkinson wrote:
> Activity Monitor or Process Viewer ( /Applications/Utilities) or open  
> Terminal and type top.
> 
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> Roy Atkinson
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> On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Dick Atlee <atlee at umd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> In Windows, a ctrl-alt-delete will either directly (XP) or via another
>> window (2000) give you the Task Manager, which, among other things,
>> gives you an real-time graph of CPU utilization, along with tables of
>> resources utilization by processes, which can be sorted by, among  
>> other
>> things, CPU utilization.
>>
>> This has always helped me decide what makes the most sense to quit out
>> of when my laptop's fan goes on and I feel its fanny and burn my
>> fingers, and see the CPU utilization at 100%.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a feature or third party program that is
>> capable of doing this?  Thanks.
>>
>> Dick
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