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Top Window is the core functionality of atMonitor. It serves multiple purposes and is used for both monitoring and interacting with the system.
For each process Top Window displays its PID and path, parent PID and path, description, arguments, environment, libraries and open files.
Renice.
Processes have their default running priority, but renice allows to change it by either raising or lowering the priority, thus allowing more CPU cycles to the more useful applications.
The priorities can be also remembered and automatically re-applied when atMonitor launches.
Signal.
Any standard BSD signal can be selected and sent to any process using a simple popup.
Pause.
Any user process or application can be paused to temporarily allocate system resources elsewhere when needed.
Kill.
Kill button is provided to easily stop or force kill a process.
Man Pages.
A wealth of useful information about the processes can be found in Mac OS X man pages. PDF documents for man pages are generated on the fly and displayed using Preview.app.
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