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I keep this active in my Dock at all times, but I’m a bit of a geek and a bit obsessive about monitoring CPU activity and performance, making sure things are running at optimal conditions at all times.

If you find yourself using this often, you may want to pin Activity Monitor to the Dock by right-clicking and choosing “Keep in Dock” from the Options submenu. You can also choose to minimize the primary window to get the same effect, though the minimized window will maintain itself in the Dock as well. You can close out of the primary Activity Monitor window but keep the Dock icon active, to do that just click the Red close button, which will ditch the window but leave the app itself running, thus maintaining the live activity icon in the Dock.

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Show Memory Usage – displays a pie chart of current RAM usage and allocation on the Mac, green is free memory, red is wired, yellow is active, and blue is inactive memory.Show Disk Activity – shows a live graph of disk reads (green) and writes (red) in the same format as Network Usage.Show Network Usage – displays a graph of incoming (green) and outgoing (red) network traffic, this can be helpful if you’re on a sketchy internet connection or are carefully conserving bandwidth.Show CPU History – this shows processor load and use graphed over time, each CPU core is shown separately.Show CPU Usage – this is a live gauge of processor activity on the Mac, each CPU core is shown as a separate bar, this is probably the most useful of the five choices (shown up top).Right-click on the Dock icon and scroll up to the “Dock Icon” submenu and select one of five available options:.Launch Activity Monitor, found in /Applications/Utilities/.Transforming the Activity Monitor Dock icon into a live system resource monitor is simple, and makes for an extraordinarily useful tool to keep an eye on various aspects of system behavior:

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How to Monitor System Activity from the Dock in Mac OS X This is really handy if you like to keep an eye on a system resource, as many Mac users do, and since Activity Monitor is bundled with the Mac there are no third party apps to rely on, it’s all built into MacOS X.