The Performance Monitor is a good built-in tool that lets you monitor and study how applications you run affect your computer’s performance, both in real-time and by collecting log data for later ...

With UNIX having many tasks running simultaneously, through the years developers have incorporated several command-line tools that allow for live process management ...

While you can open up Windows' Task Manager at any time to see how much CPU a program is using, it's harder to watch that specific program's usage over time. Average CPU Cycles is a small, portable ...

CPU monitoring utilities have a reputation problem, and it is not about accuracy so much as the junk that often rides along with them. In a landscape crowded with ad-supported dashboards and bloated ...

If you can figure out what process is tying up the CPU by studying Task Manager, you're pretty smart. If you've replaced Task Manager with Process Explorer 11 (Free, ) you're even smarter. Sometimes, ...

If there's any shared pastime amongst PC enthusiasts, it's keeping tabs on our hardware. Questions about CPU, GPU, and memory usage tend to keep us up at night, and we want to know if our system is ...

There have been many reports, especially with MacBook Air and other laptop owners, where the Mac OS X "kernel_task" process takes up a large amount of CPU when checked in Activity Monitor. When this ...

Hi,<br><br>Is there a tool to log individual process cpu usage for charting purposes? In windows there's stuff for this, but I find it kinda hard to start doing ...

If you can figure out what process is tying up the CPU by studying Task Manager, you're pretty smart. If you've replaced Task Manager with Process Explorer 11 (Free, ) you're even smarter. Sometimes, ...