While I rarely recommend commercial products on this website, I have been very happy with the application that I use to see this information: iStat Menus from bjango. IStat Menus - A Mac CPU and memory usage monitor Here's my current Mac memory usage (with the World Series game not running any more): While the small graph icons are extremely helpful to see all the time, if you click them you'll see some more detail information. More detailed Mac CPU and memory use information It's nice to see the 'dual core' CPU approach being used.

I've underlined the CPU usage graphs with a red line at the top of this image:Īnd here's a closer look at just the Mac memory and CPU usage indicators on the Mac menu bar:Īs you can see, both Mac CPU processors were very active while watching the baseball, which surprised me a little bit, because Flash is such a maligned technology. Here's an idea of what my Mac CPU usage looked like. They weren't pegged to the needle like they are when I'm ripping a DVD on my Mac, but they were pretty busy. I was just taking a break and watching last night's World Series game on MLB.com, and I happened to look up and see that both of my Mac CPUs were very active.

One cool thing about having a good Mac CPU and memory usage monitor is that you can watch it while an application is running. Mac CPU and memory usage: Can you recommend any products to easily monitor Mac CPU usage (and Mac memory usage)?

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