CPU Ultilisation Plotting Tool

[Dave Baumann]

Does anyone know of a utlity that will plot CPU utlisation over a short period of time?

 

[Dr. Ffreeze]

DaveBaumann,

How to manage System Monitor counters in Windows XP
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This article was previously published under Q305610
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SUMMARY

Add Counters to System Monitor
Delete Counters from System Monitor
Obtain Details About Counters
SUMMARY
This step-by-step article describes how to manage System Monitor counters.

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To add counters to System Monitor
Click Start, click Run, and then type perfmon.msc in the Open box.
In the Performance window, right-click the right pane, and then click Add Counters.
To monitor any computer on which the monitoring console is run, click Use local computer counters. Or, to monitor a specific computer regardless of where the monitoring console is run, click Select counters from computer, and then type a computer name. By default, the name of the local computer is selected.
Under Performance object, click an object to monitor. The Processor object is selected by default.
To monitor all counters, click All counters. Or, to monitor only selected counters, click Select counters from list, and then select the counters you want to monitor. The % Processor Time counter is selected by default.
To monitor all instances of the selected counters, click All instances. Or, to monitor only selected instances, click Select instances from list, and then select the instances you want to monitor. The _Total instance is selected by default.
Click Add.
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To delete counters from System Monitor
Click Start, click Run, and then type perfmon.msc in the Open box.
In the Performance window, right-click the right pane, and then click Delete.
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To obtain details about counters
Click Start, click Run, and then type perfmon.msc in the Open box.
In the Performance window, right-click the right pane, and then click Add Counters.
Under Performance object, click an object.
Under Performance counters, click the counter for which you want information.
Click the Explain button.

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Not sure if they will either do what you want.

Hope this helps,
Dr. Ffreeze
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[DarN]

Does anyone know of a utlity that will plot CPU utlisation over a short period of time?

Someone's had one too many pints methinks!

 

[ERP]

Does anyone know of a utlity that will plot CPU utlisation over a short period of time?

Be careful with this.....
Last I checked D3D busy waited in various places, so it will look like the application is using more CPU than it is.

Pix might give you a good read.

 

[Guden Oden]

Why not just press ctrl-alt-del and bring up the task manager? Flip over to the Performance tab, and there's a CPU graph right there.

Is there a way to start the task manager minimized when the computer boots up? I find the little thermometer in the systray rather useful, besides, it looks nifty too.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Thanks Dr Feeze, the perfmon solution fits my needs closest at the moment. Although I'd ideally like to be able to log the average CPU utlisitation every few seconds or so, and have that logged - not quite figured out how to do that yet though.

Its for Video decoding performance BTW.

 

[Neeyik]

What about PIX in the latest DirectX SDK?