Tag: processor
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Why Your Internet Browser is Such a RAM Hog
By Des Nnochiri Savvy computer users have been ranting for years about how their internet browser hogs so much of their RAM. The issue has become so important that some are even using a platform’s RAM-consumption rate as the main factor affecting their decision to use it. Although shocking that a single application on […]
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Counters Monitoring CPU Usage
By Zoë Dunning This week’s topic is monitoring CPU usage using the “\Processor Information(_Total)\% Processor Time” and “\Processor Information(_Total)\% Processor Queue Length” counters. Overview “\Processor Information(_Total)\% Processor Time” shows the percentage of the time that the processor takes to execute a non-idle thread during a sample interval. In other words, this counter shows processor […]