In Windoze the taskbar manager lets us monitor which applications are hogging a lot of resources on the compter. How do I do the same for Mac OS X?
Open up a terminal window and run the "top" command. If you want to read about the command first, then run man 1 top.
I sort the processes by CPU usage and real memory to check. A quick way is to have iStat to be able to see the top processes at a glance. I used it recently to remove runaway processes too which stopped me from using sleep properly.
