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Questions tagged [process-explorer]

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What is a Process Handle?

What is a process handle and what can we know about a running process through the "handle count" property in a task explorer?
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Finegrained performance reporting on svchost.exe

This is something that's always bothered me, so I'll ask the Server Fault community. I love Process Explorer for keeping track of more than just the high-level tasks you get in the Task Manager. But I constantly want to know which of those dozen…
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How do I determine what taskhost.exe is doing?

Once or twice a week taskhost.exe slows my computer to a halt! It takes up 25% of my CPU power (ie. 1 processor). I can't kill it an have no idea what it is doing. I imagine that its some kind of window's scheduled activity. How can I figure out…
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How can the Private Bytes of a process be significantly less than its effect on the system commit charge?

On a 64-bit Windows Server 2003, I can see using taskmgr or process explorer that the total commit charge is around 3.5GB, yet when I sum the Private Bytes consumed by each process (by running pslist -m and adding all values under the Priv column)…
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Comparison between htop and top

Here is a screenshot of top and htop running at the same moment on same host (both sorted by cpu usage). Why does top show only few of php-cgi and mysqld processes while htop shows them all (according to ps output)?
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Should you replace your task manager with process explorer?

We all know & love process explorer. The question is should it be used as the main task manager and replace Windows task manager (launched on CTRL-SHIFT-ESCAPE).
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Hyper-V VM CPU usage monitoring

I'm migrating a number of VM's from one host to another (Win 2012R2 to Win 2016) and am noticing much higher CPU usage on the new host (quite a lot higher). I was seeing this on Task Explorer so decided to use Process Explorer to try and get a…
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What is 'Process I/O' in Process Explorer

I'm debugging a performance issue on an RDS server, and trying to understand the output of the System Information graphs in Process Explorer: The I/O graph is showing about 40Mb/s total and the Network and Disk graphs are showing much less in…
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Logging Hardware Interrupts (IRQs) which are using 10-25% CPU

I have a server using 10-25% of the CPU time on Hardware Interrupts according to Process Explorer. How would I go about logging/diagnosing the cause of all these IRQ calls? The machine is virtual, so I know the physical hardware is not the problem…
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How to launch Process Explorer

I installed a Sysinternals' utility called Process Explorer. I am not able to see the utility. Where do I need to go to run Process Explorer?
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Windows 2012 Task Manager vs Process Explorer, different CPU usage, why?

We have a server with 4 Intel Xeon E5-4617 (6-core) CPUs. We are using it as a database server. Windows 2012 task manager shows no cpu usage in 2 processors. Process Explorer shows CPU usage in all processors, but low CPU usage in 3 cores from the…
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Determine which device(s) cause(s) high CPU via interupts in Process Explorer

I have a Windows 2003 server that occasionally hangs. When it hangs, I can still use it through the console, but externally, it is completely unresponsive. It won't even respond to pings. However, restarting it returns it to a normal state for…
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Sysinternals Process Explorer: don't close when pressing the escape key

I often accidentally close Process Explorer when I only want to close one of its dialogs, because I press the ESC key once too often. Quite annoying. Is there any way to configure Process Explorer to not close when the ESC key is pressed?
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Windows Server 2012 R2 kernel threads increase until the system hang

I have a small problem with my Windows Server 2012 R2. At the moment the problem is that the threads from "NT Kernel & System" increase every second until they reach 16k, and then the server becomes very slow or hangs. When I try to debug the…
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On Windows Server 2008, how to troubleshoot IIS hang when CPU, Disk IO are normal?

Can someone recommend a good strategy for troubleshooting IIS that is hanging on Windows 2008? Normally, I check the following in Process Explorer: CPU Disk I/O Context Switch Delta However, in certain situations all of these values are low and…
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