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For me, the point is not constant active monitoring but being able to see when some application runs away with my system resources.

At a glance network monitoring is also very handy — I can check if an application is absolutely chewing through data (or quietly not actually doing anything at all), which is quite useful for metered connections.

> unless you're running some weird or buggy apps that consume more resources than they should

ahh, to live in a world where this caveat wasn't the norm

I do run servers on my Mac OS, and also buggy apps (mine), so Developers like me loves this app!