Monitoring more than what Task Manager provides

Author: webmaster     03 12th, 2010 in sbbbs.com     edit

  • I am using a laptop. It has a dual 3 GHz CPU with 1.25 GB RAM. That is more often than not not the limiting factor for performance. Mostly for gaming, a more neglected critical bottle neck is the slow HD transfer speeds and RAM bandwidth. Is there a resource monitor that is sophisticated enough to monitor all of these and other little-known performance limiting factors? This could be a separate question: While we are at monitors, is there software that will also monitor and CHANGE fan speeds for laptops? Out of the few that even exist, none could be set to leave the fan on at full speed, since I know that I would like the temperature to stay down at all costs during some applications.


  • Use the Performance Monitor included with Windows (under Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Performance). For example, under the category PhysicalDisk there are the following items available: % Disk Read Time % Disk Time % Disk Write Time % Idle Time Avg. Disk Bytes/Read Avg. Disk Bytes/Transfer Avg. Disk Bytes/Write Avg. Disk Queue Length Avg. Disk Read Queue Length Avg. Disk sec/Read Avg. Disk sec/Transfer Avg. Disk sec/Write Avg. Disk Write Queue Length Current Disk Queue Length Disk Bytes/sec Disk Read Bytes/sec Disk Reads/sec Disk Transfers/sec Disk Write Bytes/sec Disk Writes/sec Split IO/Sec


  • I think that Windows tools are not enough. I would be interested in a good program that will specifically log RAM and HD bandwidth used. I suspect that it is of no use for the processor to do 20 instructions before it can make a SINGLE access to a RAM! At least now they are putting 667 MHz RAM in desktops. I would like to build a desktop with 800 MHz ECC memory and 15,000 RPM SCSI HD. That should keep a 3.6 GHz supplied with data to process!


  • Just like with the other question, what I ask here (memory and harddrive bandwidth) is not practically answerable. I am aware of both the windows Performance section as well as other programs on the Net. None that I have seen could ever tell me how much of the memory bandwidth is used. I suspect it would be hard to implement that in software. I am willing to see your links posted as answers, however, if you want to, please let me change the price to 7.50. Or I should close this question so it doesn't even attract more attention.


  • Hi, Have a look at these freeware applications please and see if you like any of them. I think a combination of them might be able to fulfil your requirements. Process Explorer http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html Filemon for Windows http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Please let me know if this helps. Thanks. endo







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