Processor monitoring app

[Luis Ortega]

I have seen some images posted of the cores being monitored to show their usage but I don't know what people use to see this activity.
Are there any free apps that you can install on the Mac Pro to monitor usage of the cores?
Thanks for any advice.

 

[Father Jack]

I use the iStat pro widget. Download free.

 

[liketom]

activity mon is free and already installed

 

[sammich]

For clarification: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app

Standard application/processor monitoring program.

 

[rockinrocker]

there's also istat menus, basically the same thing as the widget but puts the monitor graphs in your menu bar.

 

[Luis Ortega]

Thanks everyone.
I already have iStat installed but I didn't know about its activity monitor.
Apparently, most of my cores sit idle most of the time.
I'll try to see how they get used with things like Final Cut Pro later on.

 

[product26]

there's also istat menus

its great

 

[wesk702]

imenu is nice, just a little ugly.