JONATHANHELD
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A Task Manager that records task activity, OR triggers a snapshot if a process goes above 90%?
Hello! I asked this a few months ago, on EE, but in a different area, and I got no responses. Perhaps you programmers would know.
I am looking for an XP "Task Manager" with a specific feature. A task manager which will do any of these things:
-when a process uses CPU % above a predetermined threshold, a "snapshot" is taken of all processes running (and their %) at that moment, and recorded. Or,
-all process activity is recorded, in a loop, so I can call up the "process state", say 47 minutes ago. Or, even better:
-it will record a log of every running process, each second, 24/7, and the CPU% each proc is using. Yes, a large log file, but I would only need to run it for a day or two.
Does this utility exist? It would be great for troubleshooting a common problem: when a computer freezes for 20 seconds, randomly, a few times a day. This would point to what process may be the culprit. Or if an enduser says "my computer was extra slow last night around 8:00", I could just look at the log to see what process was hogging the CPU. (could be a virus scan, but also could be a virus or malware or an unneeded background task)
I know how to use built-in "Performance Monitor" to do something similar, but it will NOT log processes which start after PerfMon was started.
They're gotta be a utility like this! If not, it would probably be a very popular shareware app, if written.
Thanks!
-Jon
I am looking for an XP "Task Manager" with a specific feature. A task manager which will do any of these things:
-when a process uses CPU % above a predetermined threshold, a "snapshot" is taken of all processes running (and their %) at that moment, and recorded. Or,
-all process activity is recorded, in a loop, so I can call up the "process state", say 47 minutes ago. Or, even better:
-it will record a log of every running process, each second, 24/7, and the CPU% each proc is using. Yes, a large log file, but I would only need to run it for a day or two.
Does this utility exist? It would be great for troubleshooting a common problem: when a computer freezes for 20 seconds, randomly, a few times a day. This would point to what process may be the culprit. Or if an enduser says "my computer was extra slow last night around 8:00", I could just look at the log to see what process was hogging the CPU. (could be a virus scan, but also could be a virus or malware or an unneeded background task)
I know how to use built-in "Performance Monitor" to do something similar, but it will NOT log processes which start after PerfMon was started.
They're gotta be a utility like this! If not, it would probably be a very popular shareware app, if written.
Thanks!
-Jon
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One comment to make, often these "20 sec hangs" are extremely intractible: in fact, they can lock the kernel sufficiently that monitoring utilities may
miss samples. On one system, I recorded a CPU utilization of ~5% despite the fact that the system was entirely unusable (turns out it was a
bad network card).
I Recommend running Sysinternals Process Explorer to get a handle on your system, Mark Russinovitch has an article on some of the steps he used
to get to the bottom of a similar delay
Process Explorer
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
Case of Periodic Hangs
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/07/case-of-periodic-system-hangs.html
Cheers,
-Bill
miss samples. On one system, I recorded a CPU utilization of ~5% despite the fact that the system was entirely unusable (turns out it was a
bad network card).
I Recommend running Sysinternals Process Explorer to get a handle on your system, Mark Russinovitch has an article on some of the steps he used
to get to the bottom of a similar delay
Process Explorer
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
Case of Periodic Hangs
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/07/case-of-periodic-system-hangs.html
Cheers,
-Bill
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from the author: I just closed the the question and issued the points.
Thanks Bill!
Thanks Bill!
Thank you Johnathan, glad to help
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