One
of the most useful tools available in Zeta when something is misbehaving,
is the deskbar replicant ProcessController. Launch the application.
A window will than appear with some text and moving vertical bars.Those
bars shows the activity of your processor(s) and the memory usage
(RAM) in the form of bars. The higher those bars are, the more your
system is loaded and more memory (RAM) is used.

If you click on the bars, a pop-up menu will appear, presenting
you ProcessController's functionalities. To place ProcessController
in the Deskbar, simply select the option "Live in the Deskbar"
(if a replicant is already in the Deskbar, this option is checked).

ProcessController was designed with the option to also be used
as a replicant on the desktop, so when you launch ProcessController
the option "Show Replicants" will automatically be activated.
To drag the replicant in a replicant-aware application (the Desktop
for instance), click on the little hand at the bottom right of the
bars, and without releasing the mouse's button, move it above a
replicant-aware application's window. The "bars" will
now also be hosted by that application.
Through it's popup menu you can on the display:
- View the acitivty of each individual team and thread graphically
in real-time

The "Kill, Debug, or Change Priority" menu allows you
several different things:
- You can monitor the activity of the teams & threads running
in your system.
You can kill a team by selecting the team's name in the popup.
You'll be given a chance to confirm or cancel this operation with
a modal dialog.
- By selecting the thread's name in the popup, you'll get a modal
dialog that will offer you to:
- Kill that thread,
- Debug that thread (useful for developers only. You can then
start bdb by simply typing bdb in the window that appears!)

- You can see what priority has each thread by looking at what
item is selected in the menu that appears when you select a thread.
- You can change a thread's priority by selecting the priority
you wish in the priority menu that appears when you select the
thread.

- If you have a multi-processor computer, you will have an equal
number of items labeled "Processor" with a number afterwards.
You can turn on or off each individual processor by selected the
corresponding item. Active processors are identified by the check
mark.
- Fast access to the Terminal
- Re-launch the Tracker (option only available if Tracker has
stopped running)
- Re-launch the Deskbar (option only available of Deskbar has
stopped running)
- The "Use Pulse's Settings for Colors" will allow
you to change the colors of the replicant's bars. The colors used
are the one selected in the "Deskbar Mode" preference
for the Pulse application. If you don't like the default colors,
you can select your own using Pulse
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