Tracking CPU and Memory usage per process

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I suspect that one of my applications eats more CPU cycles than I want it to  The problem is - it happens in bursts  and just looking at the task manager doesn t help me as it shows immediate usage only   Is there a way  on Windows  to track the history of CPU  amp  Memory usage for some process  E g  I will start tracking  firefox   and after an hour or so will see a graph of its CPU  amp  memory usage during that hour   I m looking for either a ready-made tool or a programmatic way to achieve this

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Process Lasso is designed more for process automation and priority class optimization, not graphs. That said, it does offer per-process CPU utilization history (drawn as a white line on the graph) but it does NOT offer per-process memory utilization history.

DISCLAIMER: I am the author of Process Lasso, but am not actually endorsing it here - as there are better solutions (perfmon being the best).

The best thing ever is Windows Vista+ Resource and Performance Monitor. It can track usage of CPU, Memory, Network, and Disk accesses by processes over time. It is a great overall system information utility that should have been created long ago. Unless I am mistaken, it can track per-process CPU and memory utilization over time (amongst the other things listed).

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I agree  perfmon exe allows you to add counters  right click on the right panel  for any process you want to monitor   Performance Object  Process Check  Select instances from list  and select firefox

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You might want to have a look at Process Lasso

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You can also try using a C  Perl Java script get the utilization data using WMI Commands  and below is the steps for it   We need to execute 2 WMI Select Queries and apply CPU  utilization formula  1  To retrieve the total number of logical process   select NumberOfLogicalProcessors from Win32 ComputerSystem   2  To retrieve the values of PercentProcessorTime  TimeStamp Sys100NS   CPU utilization formula has be applied get the actual utilization percentage and WorkingSetPrivate   RAM   minimum of 2 times with a sleep interval of 1 second  select   from Win32 PerfRawData PerfProc Process where IDProcess 1234   3  Apply CPU  utilization formula  CPU     p2-p1   t2-t1  100  NumberOfLogicalProcessors   p2 indicated PercentProcessorTime retrieved for the second time  and p1 indicateds the PercentProcessorTime retrieved for the first time  t2 and t1 is for TimeStamp Sys100NS   A sample Perl code for this can be found in the link http   www craftedforeveryone com cpu-and-ram-utilization-of-an-application-using-perl-via-wmi   This logic applies for all programming language which supports WMI queries

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I use taskinfo for history graph of CPU RAM IO speed  http   www iarsn com taskinfo html  But bursts of unresponsiveness  sounds more like interrupt time due to a falty HD SS drive

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I agree  perfmon exe allows you to add counters  right click on the right panel  for any process you want to monitor   Performance Object  Process Check  Select instances from list  and select firefox

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You might want to have a look at Process Lasso

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Although I have not tried this out  ProcDump seems like a better solution   Description from site      ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the spike  ProcDump also includes hung window monitoring  using the same definition of a window hang that Windows and Task Manager use   unhandled exception monitoring and can generate dumps based on the values of system performance counters  It also can serve as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts

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Just type perfmon into Start  gt  Run and press enter  When the Performance window is open  click on the   sign to add new counters to the graph  The counters are different aspects of how your PC works and are grouped by similarity into groups called  Performance Object    For your questions  you can choose the  Process    Memory  and  Processor  performance objects  You then can see these counters in real time  You can also specify the utility to save the performance data for your inspection later  To do this  select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the left-hand panel   It s right under the System Monitor console which provides us with the above mentioned counters  If it is not there  click  File     Add remove snap-in   click Add and select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the list    From the  Performance Logs and Alerts   create a new monitoring configuration under  Counter Logs   Then you can add the counters  specify the sampling rate  the log format  binary or plain text  and log location

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Perfmon exe is built into windows

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Perfmon exe is built into windows

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Just type perfmon into Start  gt  Run and press enter  When the Performance window is open  click on the   sign to add new counters to the graph  The counters are different aspects of how your PC works and are grouped by similarity into groups called  Performance Object    For your questions  you can choose the  Process    Memory  and  Processor  performance objects  You then can see these counters in real time  You can also specify the utility to save the performance data for your inspection later  To do this  select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the left-hand panel   It s right under the System Monitor console which provides us with the above mentioned counters  If it is not there  click  File     Add remove snap-in   click Add and select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the list    From the  Performance Logs and Alerts   create a new monitoring configuration under  Counter Logs   Then you can add the counters  specify the sampling rate  the log format  binary or plain text  and log location

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Perfmon exe is built into windows

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Under Windows 10  the Task Manager can show you cumulative CPU hours   Just head to the  App history  tab and  Delete usage history    Now leave things running for an hour or two     What this does NOT do is break down usage in browsers by tab   Quite often inactive tabs will do a tremendous amount of work  with each open tab using energy and slowing your PC

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maybe you can use this   It should work for you and will report processor time for the specified process    echo off   Rich Kreider  lt rjk techish net gt    report processor time for given process until process exits  could be expanded to use a PID to be more   precise    Depends   typeperf   Usage   foo cmd  lt processname gt   set process   1 echo Press CTRL-C To Stop     begin for  f  tokens 2 delims      c in   typeperf   Process  process      Processor Time  -si 1 -sc 1    find  V        do   if    c  -1   goto  end   else   echo    c   goto begin       end echo Process seems to have terminated

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Process Explorer can show total CPU time taken by a process  as well as a history graph per process

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maybe you can use this   It should work for you and will report processor time for the specified process    echo off   Rich Kreider  lt rjk techish net gt    report processor time for given process until process exits  could be expanded to use a PID to be more   precise    Depends   typeperf   Usage   foo cmd  lt processname gt   set process   1 echo Press CTRL-C To Stop     begin for  f  tokens 2 delims      c in   typeperf   Process  process      Processor Time  -si 1 -sc 1    find  V        do   if    c  -1   goto  end   else   echo    c   goto begin       end echo Process seems to have terminated

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Hmm  I see that Process Explorer can do it  although its graphs are not too convenient  Still looking for alternative   better ways to do it

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There was a requirement to get status and cpu   memory usage of some specific windows servers  I used below script   This is an example of Windows Search Service        cpu   Get-WmiObject win32 processor    search   get-service  WSearch    if   search Status -eq  Running          searchmem   Get-WmiObject Win32 Service -Filter  Name    WSearch      searchid    searchmem ProcessID    searchcpu1   Get-WmiObject Win32 PerfRawData PerfProc Process   Where     IDProcess -eq  searchid    Start-Sleep -Seconds 1    searchcpu2   Get-WmiObject Win32 PerfRawData PerfProc Process   Where     IDProcess -eq  searchid     searchp2p1    searchcpu2 PercentProcessorTime -  searchcpu1 PercentProcessorTime    searcht2t1    searchcpu2 Timestamp Sys100NS -  searchcpu1 Timestamp Sys100NS    searchcpu    Math   Round   searchp2p1    searcht2t1   100    cpu NumberOfLogicalProcessors  1     searchmem    Math   Round  searchcpu1 WorkingSetPrivate   1mb 1    Write-Host  Service is   search Status   Memory consumed    searchmem  MB  CPU Usage    searchcpu            else       Write-Host Service is  search Status -BackgroundColor Red

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There was a requirement to get status and cpu   memory usage of some specific windows servers  I used below script   This is an example of Windows Search Service        cpu   Get-WmiObject win32 processor    search   get-service  WSearch    if   search Status -eq  Running          searchmem   Get-WmiObject Win32 Service -Filter  Name    WSearch      searchid    searchmem ProcessID    searchcpu1   Get-WmiObject Win32 PerfRawData PerfProc Process   Where     IDProcess -eq  searchid    Start-Sleep -Seconds 1    searchcpu2   Get-WmiObject Win32 PerfRawData PerfProc Process   Where     IDProcess -eq  searchid     searchp2p1    searchcpu2 PercentProcessorTime -  searchcpu1 PercentProcessorTime    searcht2t1    searchcpu2 Timestamp Sys100NS -  searchcpu1 Timestamp Sys100NS    searchcpu    Math   Round   searchp2p1    searcht2t1   100    cpu NumberOfLogicalProcessors  1     searchmem    Math   Round  searchcpu1 WorkingSetPrivate   1mb 1    Write-Host  Service is   search Status   Memory consumed    searchmem  MB  CPU Usage    searchcpu            else       Write-Host Service is  search Status -BackgroundColor Red

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Although I have not tried this out  ProcDump seems like a better solution   Description from site      ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the spike  ProcDump also includes hung window monitoring  using the same definition of a window hang that Windows and Task Manager use   unhandled exception monitoring and can generate dumps based on the values of system performance counters  It also can serve as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts

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Process Lasso is designed more for process automation and priority class optimization, not graphs. That said, it does offer per-process CPU utilization history (drawn as a white line on the graph) but it does NOT offer per-process memory utilization history.

DISCLAIMER: I am the author of Process Lasso, but am not actually endorsing it here - as there are better solutions (perfmon being the best).

The best thing ever is Windows Vista+ Resource and Performance Monitor. It can track usage of CPU, Memory, Network, and Disk accesses by processes over time. It is a great overall system information utility that should have been created long ago. Unless I am mistaken, it can track per-process CPU and memory utilization over time (amongst the other things listed).

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WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation  and it s built into all recent versions of Windows  It allows you to programmatically track things like CPU usage  disk I O  and memory usage   Perfmon exe is a GUI front-end to this interface  and can monitor a process  write information to a log  and allow you to analyze the log after the fact  It s not the world s most elegant program  but it does get the job done

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You might want to have a look at Process Lasso

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Process Explorer can show total CPU time taken by a process  as well as a history graph per process

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Download process monitor  Start Process Monitor  Set a filter if required  Enter menu Options  gt  Profiling Events  Click  quot Generate thread prof iling events quot   choose the frequency  and click OK   To see the collected historical data at any time  enter menu Tools  gt  Process Activity Summary

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You might want to have a look at Process Lasso

User · Answer

Process Explorer can show total CPU time taken by a process  as well as a history graph per process

User · Answer

WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation  and it s built into all recent versions of Windows  It allows you to programmatically track things like CPU usage  disk I O  and memory usage   Perfmon exe is a GUI front-end to this interface  and can monitor a process  write information to a log  and allow you to analyze the log after the fact  It s not the world s most elegant program  but it does get the job done

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On macOS  I use Instrument and attach the process into it

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I use taskinfo for history graph of CPU RAM IO speed  http   www iarsn com taskinfo html  But bursts of unresponsiveness  sounds more like interrupt time due to a falty HD SS drive

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Hmm  I see that Process Explorer can do it  although its graphs are not too convenient  Still looking for alternative   better ways to do it

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Hmm  I see that Process Explorer can do it  although its graphs are not too convenient  Still looking for alternative   better ways to do it

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Just type perfmon into Start  gt  Run and press enter  When the Performance window is open  click on the   sign to add new counters to the graph  The counters are different aspects of how your PC works and are grouped by similarity into groups called  Performance Object    For your questions  you can choose the  Process    Memory  and  Processor  performance objects  You then can see these counters in real time  You can also specify the utility to save the performance data for your inspection later  To do this  select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the left-hand panel   It s right under the System Monitor console which provides us with the above mentioned counters  If it is not there  click  File     Add remove snap-in   click Add and select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the list    From the  Performance Logs and Alerts   create a new monitoring configuration under  Counter Logs   Then you can add the counters  specify the sampling rate  the log format  binary or plain text  and log location

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Just type perfmon into Start  gt  Run and press enter  When the Performance window is open  click on the   sign to add new counters to the graph  The counters are different aspects of how your PC works and are grouped by similarity into groups called  Performance Object    For your questions  you can choose the  Process    Memory  and  Processor  performance objects  You then can see these counters in real time  You can also specify the utility to save the performance data for your inspection later  To do this  select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the left-hand panel   It s right under the System Monitor console which provides us with the above mentioned counters  If it is not there  click  File     Add remove snap-in   click Add and select  Performance Logs and Alerts  in the list    From the  Performance Logs and Alerts   create a new monitoring configuration under  Counter Logs   Then you can add the counters  specify the sampling rate  the log format  binary or plain text  and log location

User · Answer

You can also try using a C  Perl Java script get the utilization data using WMI Commands  and below is the steps for it   We need to execute 2 WMI Select Queries and apply CPU  utilization formula  1  To retrieve the total number of logical process   select NumberOfLogicalProcessors from Win32 ComputerSystem   2  To retrieve the values of PercentProcessorTime  TimeStamp Sys100NS   CPU utilization formula has be applied get the actual utilization percentage and WorkingSetPrivate   RAM   minimum of 2 times with a sleep interval of 1 second  select   from Win32 PerfRawData PerfProc Process where IDProcess 1234   3  Apply CPU  utilization formula  CPU     p2-p1   t2-t1  100  NumberOfLogicalProcessors   p2 indicated PercentProcessorTime retrieved for the second time  and p1 indicateds the PercentProcessorTime retrieved for the first time  t2 and t1 is for TimeStamp Sys100NS   A sample Perl code for this can be found in the link http   www craftedforeveryone com cpu-and-ram-utilization-of-an-application-using-perl-via-wmi   This logic applies for all programming language which supports WMI queries

User · Answer

Download process monitor  Start Process Monitor  Set a filter if required  Enter menu Options  gt  Profiling Events  Click  quot Generate thread prof iling events quot   choose the frequency  and click OK   To see the collected historical data at any time  enter menu Tools  gt  Process Activity Summary

User · Answer

Using perfmon exe  I have tried using the  Private Bytes  counter under  Process  counters for tracking memory usage and it works well

User · Answer

I agree  perfmon exe allows you to add counters  right click on the right panel  for any process you want to monitor   Performance Object  Process Check  Select instances from list  and select firefox

User · Answer

Under Windows 10  the Task Manager can show you cumulative CPU hours   Just head to the  App history  tab and  Delete usage history    Now leave things running for an hour or two     What this does NOT do is break down usage in browsers by tab   Quite often inactive tabs will do a tremendous amount of work  with each open tab using energy and slowing your PC

User · Answer

Hmm  I see that Process Explorer can do it  although its graphs are not too convenient  Still looking for alternative   better ways to do it

User · Answer

Process Explorer can show total CPU time taken by a process  as well as a history graph per process

User · Answer

WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation  and it s built into all recent versions of Windows  It allows you to programmatically track things like CPU usage  disk I O  and memory usage   Perfmon exe is a GUI front-end to this interface  and can monitor a process  write information to a log  and allow you to analyze the log after the fact  It s not the world s most elegant program  but it does get the job done

User · Answer

Using perfmon exe  I have tried using the  Private Bytes  counter under  Process  counters for tracking memory usage and it works well

User · Answer

WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation  and it s built into all recent versions of Windows  It allows you to programmatically track things like CPU usage  disk I O  and memory usage   Perfmon exe is a GUI front-end to this interface  and can monitor a process  write information to a log  and allow you to analyze the log after the fact  It s not the world s most elegant program  but it does get the job done

User · Answer

On macOS  I use Instrument and attach the process into it

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I agree  perfmon exe allows you to add counters  right click on the right panel  for any process you want to monitor   Performance Object  Process Check  Select instances from list  and select firefox

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Perfmon exe is built into windows

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