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Notice this is coming from a user who did not even use a task monitor first. He writes in a followup post that he had a task maxing his CPU on the background.

Every system should come with a simple task monitor installed and running in a visible place, e.g. an icon in the Mac menu bar. Yes I know about the Activity Monitor - it's not enough.

It's basically like being sold a car without the engine oil temperature gauge.



This is why the first thing I install on any Mac is MenuMeters. Beautiful, simple, and, as you impress, essential:

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/


Activity Monitor allows you to switch out its static icon to a dynamic CPU Usage gauge on the dock.

View -> Dock Icon -> *

* CPU Usage

* CPU History

* Network Usage

* Disk Activity




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