In operating systems, a task manager is a system monitor program used to provide information about the processes and applications running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer. Some implementations can also be used to terminate processes and applications, as well as change the processes' scheduling priority. In some environments, users can access a task manager with the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard shortcut.
Task managers can display running services. (processes) as well as those that were stopped. They can display information about the services, including their process identifier and group identifier.
Common task managers Activity Monitor, included in macOS Conky, for the X Window System htop, for the Unix shell Plasma System Monitor, included in KDE Plasma Desktop nmon, for Linux and AIX ps, for the Unix shell Task Manager, included in Windows tasklist, for DOS TaskManager, included in MorphOS top, for the Unix shell Browser Task Manager in Chromium-based browser such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, which displays CPU and memory usage of tabs Task list in mobile operating systems In mobile operating systems, such as iOS, Android and Windows Phone, the simpler task list may be used instead of the task manager.
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