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    CPU usage monitoring software.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mew1838, Jul 23, 2009.

  1. mew1838

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    I need a software that records the usage of my cpu. So after a gaming session, I can see how much of the cpu was being used. Something that gives me a log. The task manager is way too short.
     
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    For specific named processes, or for all processes running at the time, and what sort of time interval did you want to use?

    For something simple, you could just write a small Powershell script that would run in the background and keep tabs on the data you wanted.
     
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    Hmnn for example I want to monitor how much the CPU was used for a session of L4D.
     
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    What OS are you running?
     
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    Win 7, Vista X64
     
    mew1838, Jul 24, 2009
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    sysinternals process monitor
     
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    HWMonitor, CpuMon both work very well.
     
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    Do you want to just see the bottom line usage (i.e., the process used xx.xxx seconds of CPU time, out of a total of yyy.yyy seconds of CPU time consumed by all processes running during the time period), or do you want to see a time series showing how CPU usage varies of the course of the session?
     
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