Task manager
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Start bar
Opening the task manager, simply click the Sitecore start bar.
Still, its 100% web based (AJAX driven) application.
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Process list
Lets have a look at the background processes running. Yes, - we can see that someone is publishing data from master server to external servers.
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Performance monitor
Measuring total User time on the process. Graph is naturally updated through AJAX.
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And you just continue working
The performance monitor naturally runs in background, so you can continue working.