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samoz
Asked: 2009-07-01 05:00:06 +0800 CST

Get a history of CPU/memory usage

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Is there someway to record Task Managers info about CPU and memory usage to examine later? Or an equivalent tool?

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  1. Best Answer

    Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) should do the job for you; you can configure it to log to a file, so just enable the counters you need and it'll log as much as you want.

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    • Start > Run > perfmon
    • Hit the plus sign next to Performance Logs and Alerts
    • Right click System Log and select properties.
    • Adjust the sampling times to whatever you like
    • When you are done, hit OK then the plus sign at the top of the window.

    This page gives a pretty good step-by-step with screenshots

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  3. I use PolyMon to monitor these kinds of things. You can define various "alert" conditions about which you'd like to receive notification, so I get notified if one of my servers is having a problem.

    But it also stores all these results in a long term database, so I can look back at the memory usage of server "X" and see it's memory usage trends over the last N days/weeks/months/years.

    http://polymon.codeplex.com/

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  4. You may consider using a monitoring solution like zabbix, zenoss to collect and analyse your perf counters.

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  5. Cacti is a great webv based graphing programme. It can graph CPU, memory, disk space, etc, etc. It can also be extended with your own plugins.

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  6. Process Explorer will also show CPU history.

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  8. Yes, perfmon ("Performance Monitor" in Control Panel)

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