The Windows Task Manager is a similar tool for Windows systems. The task manager includes information for current applications as well as processes,
CPU and memory usage, and networking statistics. A screen shot of the task manager appears in Figure 2.19.
Making operating systems easier to understand, debug, and tune as they run is an active area of research and implementation.
A new generation of kernel-enabled performance analysis tools has made significant improvements in how this goal can be achieved.
Next, we discuss a leading example of such a tool: the Solaris 10 DTrace dynamic tracing facility.