OS Track: system monitoring

For Mac OS X, there are many kinds of applications for every taste and color, and which want to immediately install and use. But as we know, the resources of any computer is not rubber, and poppies are no exception. Particularly affected are the owners of MacBook Air, which, as we know, all the RAM can not be expanded.

In order to find out which application consumes system resources, you can start the application "System Monitor", which is available in a standard set of Mac OS X. Applications But it shows all the information is not so clearly as we would like. And then to do battle with this misunderstanding come from developers.

In today's review we will talk about an interesting program OS Track, which shows all the necessary information is much more beautiful and clear.

The principle of operation is very simple. Application hangs in the background and collects statistics on three parameters: memory usage, CPU utilization and bandwidth consumption.

Interface OS Track minimalistic. On the left is a list of all applications that were started at least once during the work OS Track. In the center is the actual statistics show a peculiar "puff" column, which is assigned to the color that is closest to the color application icon.

Thus each "layer" - is a single process. On the right is more information: current, average and peak resource consumption, a certain percentage.

You can select the amount of time that will be displayed - this is 7, 15, 30 and 60 days. It should be noted that the statistics recorded only the last 60 days - all that is older is not saved.

There is a search by first letters of the name of the process or application. It's always useful, suddenly found the desired program in the list will be problematic.

Settings from the application as there are none at all - there is only reset the data collected, but they are in principle not required, since the application executes only one task.

There is full support for OS X Lion, including full-screen mode, and inertial scrolling.

Main OS Track convenience is that you can always open at any time when there is feeling that some application is clearly hooked on resources, the benefit of the icon always sits in the menu bar system. You open and watch, because of the process all the brakes.

In conclusion, we must also say that the application itself is completely free and is available only through the Mac App Store.

Download the Mac App Store: OS Track
Price: is free
developer: Bloop S.R.L.
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 and above