Chapter 33. System and Process Monitoring
OS X is designed to make computing easy. Everything from the icons to the applications is user friendly. But behind the slick graphical user interface is a powerful Unix-based operating system full of processes, threads, and load averages.
System monitoring helps you head off potential problems and find the root cause of full-blown issues. If your computer is running slowly, you can use the tricks presented in this chapter to investigate the problem. You might find that one application is using all of the memory or that the processor is being hogged by an application that isn’t responding. System monitoring also helps build your overall understanding of the system by letting you see what’s going on “under ...
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