After installing Panther, if you navigate to your Applications folder and then your Utilities folder, you will find that the Process Viewer has been replaced by Activity Monitor. Some of you might have used Menu Meters or perhaps the CPU Portal widget for Konfabulator in the past to keep monitoring your processes in the Dock. Now, however, you can launch Activity Monitor and click and hold on its icon in the dock:
Notice the menu options that pop up when you click and hold on the Activity Monitor icon in the Dock.
Here, you can set the Dock icon for a variety of different display options. I like to keep it running on Show CPU history, so there is a changing graph of CPU usage in the Dock at all times. An added benefit of this, beyond what you receive from the above mentioned programs for monitoring such things, is that you can launch the Activity Monitor main window from this menu as well, in case something freezes and you need to quickly quit some processes. Cool!
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