What application is hogging my CPU?
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From: Ed Flecko on 16 Dec 2009 18:30 Sometimes my PC will become so busy that I can't even bring up task manager to try and see what's hogging my CPU. Isn't there a way to use Performance Monitor and set a "trigger" for CPU usage to start a log file of some type to determine what application(s) are bogging down my PC? Ed
From: Pfsszxt on 17 Dec 2009 11:25 On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:30:52 -0800 (PST), Ed Flecko <craigcaughlin(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Sometimes my PC will become so busy that I can't even bring up task >manager to try and see what's hogging my CPU. > >Isn't there a way to use Performance Monitor and set a "trigger" for >CPU usage to start a log file of some type to determine what >application(s) are bogging down my PC? > >Ed Open task manager
From: Sjouke Burry on 17 Dec 2009 18:16 Ed Flecko wrote: > Sometimes my PC will become so busy that I can't even bring up task > manager to try and see what's hogging my CPU. > > Isn't there a way to use Performance Monitor and set a "trigger" for > CPU usage to start a log file of some type to determine what > application(s) are bogging down my PC? > > Ed Open (and leave open) the taskmanager when the computer is still working properly. That way, when trouble starts, you can watch the culprit.
From: Gualtier Malde on 19 Dec 2009 21:26
Ed Flecko wrote: > Sometimes my PC will become so busy that I can't even bring up task > manager to try and see what's hogging my CPU. > > Isn't there a way to use Performance Monitor and set a "trigger" for > CPU usage to start a log file of some type to determine what > application(s) are bogging down my PC? > > Ed Do you have AVG? I had the experience of strange runaway behavior from avgchsvc.exe. When I got Task Manager up I could see the process CPU time cycling rapidly and Performance showed a bizarre picture. I took a screen shot. Find it on ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/c/chuckb/download/AVG_runaway.jpg/ This was in Windows 2000 but something similar has happed in my XP machine I went in a gave AVG the lowest priority and then Un-checked "Use Heuristics" in all scans. Seems to be behaving. Apparently this could have been prevented if I had done a "configuration scan" on installation. |