Thanks for the informative and useful article on Resource Monitor. I have a question, how can I save all the readings of a process that are monitored so that I can share the same with other folks for further analysis.
Lets say, I have selected a process to be monitored for one hr and would like to know how all the readings were.
Thanks
-Ram
A mackey
10 years ago
A useful tutorial but what does the ‘highest active time’ in the Disk Activity title bar mean – along with the blue line on the graph? I have had problems with this being at 100% and slowing everything down.
Thanks.
That’s the percentage of the time the disk is active and handling requests. It’s normal for this to be high during disk-intensive processes. If your numbers get very high a lot, you might want to look into getting a faster hard drive.
Opat
10 years ago
It’s not working with resmon.exe on my machine (Win 7) – it is perfmon.exe instead? Are you sure resmon is correct?
resmon is what I used, and you can see a screen shot of the results in the article. Have you tried the other ways of starting Resource Monitor?
Fonten
9 years ago
Very useful tutorial. Thanks
Do you know if there is a way to collect this data?
Maybe with the use of a script?
Andre Rogers
9 years ago
Thanks for providing this information. Can you explain the meaning of when applications on the overview tab, under the CPU section appear in blue?
anonimus
9 years ago
Why can’t I copy text from the fields in the Resource monitor, like for example the Address in the Network section. I need this so I can block that address. Who was the retard that decided not to enable copy?!?!??!
Domingo Hermosillo
9 years ago
The blue bar in the CPU total graph is always at 100%, but the green line varies between 0%-10%. Why would the blue bar be showing so high where there is so little CPU activity?
Balaji
8 years ago
I actually bumped into Resource Monitor by another route…I opened Performance Monitor, and on the top left node ‘Monitoring Tools’, I right clicked and found the option to start Resource Monitor there! 🙂
jraju
8 years ago
how to trouble shoot resource monitor , if it shows blank, while windows is running in the disk tab. Is it normal? if not how to solve this problem
White
8 years ago
Hi.
It happen that my laptop is getting stoped some times.
Its an i7 with 16gb RAM and when i’m working with a lot of programs, I can see that i only use 10gb ram and cpu is fine, but the disk is always at 100%, what can i do to solve this and have my laptop runing faster?
Peter O
7 years ago
I note several questions here which have gone unanswered & worse un-acknowledged.
A lengthy dissertation with few practical examples of the more common problems.
But until now I did not even know the existence of RM.
Is it possible to arrange a quick launch?
Some Guy
6 years ago
I’m sorry but this claim that the article makes is just fear-mongering B.S. – “In the case of Resource Monitor, you can cause all kinds of trouble if you experiment without knowing what you’re doing.” Nonsense! Resource Monitor only does monitoring. You cannot break anything by playing around with monitoring. Worst you could do is end process(es) that shouldn’t be ended. I would hardly call that “all kinds of trouble.” Sensationalist fear-mongering to make the article’s author feel more important, methinks.
Thanks for the informative and useful article on Resource Monitor. I have a question, how can I save all the readings of a process that are monitored so that I can share the same with other folks for further analysis.
Lets say, I have selected a process to be monitored for one hr and would like to know how all the readings were.
Thanks
-Ram
A useful tutorial but what does the ‘highest active time’ in the Disk Activity title bar mean – along with the blue line on the graph? I have had problems with this being at 100% and slowing everything down.
Thanks.
That’s the percentage of the time the disk is active and handling requests. It’s normal for this to be high during disk-intensive processes. If your numbers get very high a lot, you might want to look into getting a faster hard drive.
It’s not working with resmon.exe on my machine (Win 7) – it is perfmon.exe instead? Are you sure resmon is correct?
resmon is what I used, and you can see a screen shot of the results in the article. Have you tried the other ways of starting Resource Monitor?
Very useful tutorial. Thanks
Do you know if there is a way to collect this data?
Maybe with the use of a script?
Thanks for providing this information. Can you explain the meaning of when applications on the overview tab, under the CPU section appear in blue?
Why can’t I copy text from the fields in the Resource monitor, like for example the Address in the Network section. I need this so I can block that address. Who was the retard that decided not to enable copy?!?!??!
The blue bar in the CPU total graph is always at 100%, but the green line varies between 0%-10%. Why would the blue bar be showing so high where there is so little CPU activity?
I actually bumped into Resource Monitor by another route…I opened Performance Monitor, and on the top left node ‘Monitoring Tools’, I right clicked and found the option to start Resource Monitor there! 🙂
how to trouble shoot resource monitor , if it shows blank, while windows is running in the disk tab. Is it normal? if not how to solve this problem
Hi.
It happen that my laptop is getting stoped some times.
Its an i7 with 16gb RAM and when i’m working with a lot of programs, I can see that i only use 10gb ram and cpu is fine, but the disk is always at 100%, what can i do to solve this and have my laptop runing faster?
I note several questions here which have gone unanswered & worse un-acknowledged.
A lengthy dissertation with few practical examples of the more common problems.
But until now I did not even know the existence of RM.
Is it possible to arrange a quick launch?
I’m sorry but this claim that the article makes is just fear-mongering B.S. – “In the case of Resource Monitor, you can cause all kinds of trouble if you experiment without knowing what you’re doing.” Nonsense! Resource Monitor only does monitoring. You cannot break anything by playing around with monitoring. Worst you could do is end process(es) that shouldn’t be ended. I would hardly call that “all kinds of trouble.” Sensationalist fear-mongering to make the article’s author feel more important, methinks.
I think that you are being too sensitive. It is a legitimate warning. You do not want to force-close some system processes.