Performance monitoring software 1

[jneiberger]

We're having some problems with some users at a specific location and we've been having trouble nailing down the cause. I'd like to find some sort of (hopefully free) performance monitoring tool that runs on the client and keeps a record of system performance, specifically CPU usage, preferably showing it broken down by process.

It would be nice if it showed network traffic and memory usage, too. It's important that it be logging this information so that we can correlate application problems with the logs.

I found a couple of apps that turned out not to really work at all. I know of some others that are very expensive.

Any ideas?

 

[linney]

To monitor a different computer

http://www.allhelps.cn/microsoft/Wi...nt_sysmon_monitorcountersonremotecomputer.htm

825882 - System Monitor Does Not Collect Data for All Instances of a Process When Started with the WMI Command-Line Option

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825882&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Performance Management in Windows

http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/37933/pg/2/2.html

How to create a log using System Monitor in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;248345&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

303133 - Description of the Windows XP Logman.exe, Relog.exe, and Typeperf.exe Tools

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303133&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

How to manage System Monitor counters in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305610&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

823887 - Support WebCast: Monitoring and Tuning System Performance in Microsoft Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823887&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

290639 - How to Enable Heap Counters for Sysmon

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290639&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH