Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Server => Topic started by: michaewlewis on May 08, 2007, 03:49:22 PM
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Does anybody know of any software, either built into windows or 3rd party, that can keep track of CPU/Memory usage? Task Manager keeps track of it for a little while in the performance tab, but I need it to go back several days or weeks. Either some sort of logger or trending software?
thanks
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y? i think the computer keeps logs but im not sure maybe someone else will know
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ya the computer keeps logs, but the logs it keeps are only events. CPU usage isn't normally classified as an event.
I need to keep track of the CPU usage to help figure out why and when my sql server keeps crashing.
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you think that would be a event thou
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Sysinternals free Process Explorer will save a log: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx (Download link at bottom of page)
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Thanks for the link, but the only log I noticed in the program was to save process information, not processor information.
Allow me to update my needs.
The sql server in question is believed to have a memory leak or something. When I restart the server, it takes up about 400 MB or ram. After a couple days, it takes up over 1.25 GB of ram. I want to be able to look back and see if the consumption of ram is linear the whole way, or if it has a spike somewhere and just never corrects itself.
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windows has a bunch of monitors built into it. You can setup any of them to write a log file.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/Windows2000Pro/reskit/part6/proch27.mspx?mfr=true
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So how does perfmon save logs on xp?
I'm considering finding a way to create my own vb program to log cpu and memory levels, but that would take a while since I don't know vb... you'd think that such a simple program would be all over the place. ???
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What OS are you using?
Remember there are 2 different XP's now.
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I'm using XP pro and 2003 server and perfmon is the same in both, I'm assuming it would be the same in Home, if that's what you use.
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What OS are you using?
Remember there are 2 different XP's now.
There have always been two... ::)
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Travel Here... (http://www.programurl.com/software/cpu-usage.htm)
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There have always been two... ::)
except for just recently. Now a total of six versions are available... :-X
Thanks for the link. I didn't find much use for it though. I downloaded some of the programs and tested them, but the majority of them were not capable of historical usages. they were just realtime. :-\
Well, I might be able to just run the task manager and use snagit to do an auto printscreen every hour....... Maybe that's what I'll do. Ya.
thanks. I wish I could have thought of that earlier.
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There have always been two... ::)
except for just recently. Now a total of six versions are available... :-X
There are 6 versions of XP ? ? ?
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I can think of 4.
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OK i'll bite...
Humor me.
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XP Home
XP Pro
XP Media
XP Starter
That's without looking on the internet, I bet there are more.
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Media Center is not a true XP...if it were there would be a legitimate upgrade path...
Although based on the same core platform there are so many differences that nobody including the Mothership can talk me into accepting it as XP.
As far as XP Starter what would that be ? ? A legitimate OS or training wheels for Vista ?
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XP Starter is a cut down version of XP.
As far as I can recall, you could only run a few programs at a time (3, I think) and it had a RAM limit (512mb?).
Can't recall anything else offhand, but it was basically a limited version of XP Home, sold to developing countries.
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oh, sorry I meant vista.... :-[
there's six versions of the new windows os
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That's Vista, not XP.
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I was originally trying to imply how retarded it is for MS to have so many different versions of the same OS. Why not just give us one OS that does what everyone needs and let the user disable the extra stuff if they find they don't like it.
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I suppose if you were looking for every version of xp you could include
Home
Pro
Media Center
Starter
64-bit
Pro 64-bit
Embedded
Tablet
Fundamentals
for a total of... too many.
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I was originally trying to imply how retarded it is for MS to have so many different versions of the same OS. Why not just give us one OS that does what everyone needs and let the user disable the extra stuff if they find they don't like it.
Actually I find it a good Idea to create more versions sow the costumers doesn't have to pay to much for the little things they need and visa verse.
For Vista you can chose between:
Home Basic (I do have doubts about that one.)(Doesn't have the 3D flip function)
Home Premium (The first one that's actually good enough for an upgrade but I do have problems to share things with that OS)
Business (Name explains itself)
Enterprise (Don't know anything about that one)
Ultimate (The complete version of Vista but very expensive)
And I think I'm forgetting 1 but I don't know witch one
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What OS are you using?
Remember there are 2 different XP's now.
There have always been two... ::)
Sorry, I obviously need to learn this forums tags for sarcasm...
Anyone know what they are?
My original point was to be more specific, as in Home or Pro, not just XP, as Pro has a built in performance monitor. I remember reading about it briefly, but with not having Pro, I haven't had chance to have a "play" with it, so I might have been able to pass him onto something/one more knowledgeable.