From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Task manager
Task manager
A task manager is a program used to provide information • Activity Monitor on Mac OS X (known as Process
about the processes and programs running on a comput- Viewer prior to Mac OS X v10.3)
er, as well as the general status of the computer. It can al- • ps (Unix)
so be used to terminate processes and programs, as well • top (Unix) utility present in most Unix-like systems
as change the processes priority. In some environments, and the archetype after which others are modeled.
users can access a task manager by pressing the buttons • tasklist
Control-Alt-Delete. • TeamWox
Task managers can display currently running ser- • htop - available for Linux systems
vices (processes) as well as those that were stopped. They • GKrellM on BSD, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, and
can display information about the services (such as Pro- Windows
cess ID and group) if known. • KDE System Guard and KTop on KDE 3.
• System Activity on KDE Software Compilation 4.
Common task managers • GNOME System Monitor on GNOME.
• Xfce Task Manager on XFCE.
• Windows Task Manager on Microsoft Windows • AIX procmon GUI process monitoring tool.
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