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Alternative activity monitors for OS X?

I’m a bit intrigued by the new detailed activity monitors and progress indicators in Windows 8 (copying files, the task monitor, network activity, etc.) It got me thinking: surely there must be some ...
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Help identify what process is using CPU when active processes suggest machine is idle

After rebooting, and with only the activity monitor open, my MB Pro (10.6, i7) shows a very high idle % (98% or higher) but then shortly after drops down to 40% - 50%. There are no processes in the ...
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Mac app to show cumulative CPU usage?

Activity Monitor will show you how much CPU time the current instances of each process have taken. I want an app that will show the total CPU time all instances of each process have taken, so I can ...
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How do I tell what processes are driving I/O loads?

Something is driving a lot of Disk I/O on my system lately. I can see in ActivityMonitor that there are huge volumes of reads and writes every second. But none of the "normal" suspects are active when ...