Need to report on a task manager process

[plsntnrules]

I have an application that spawns 20 different instances of a process...all with the same name.

I am trying to do some trending on the processes..specifically what the memory utilization has been for each of the 20 processes over a period of a
week.

How can I do this or is this even prossible?

All 20 processes show up in the task manager under the processes tab and they each have a unique SPID.

Any help would be mucho appreciated.

 

[volleyman]

several 3rd party products can help you, specifically check out Solarwinds Engineers toolkit. It can graph that for you as well as do a million other things.

I believe they have a free demo download of the toolkit to try it out.

Zane D.
Systems Admin

 

[plsntnrules]

Hmmm.
I just took a look at the solarwinds engineer toolset software and this is more to do with networking and snmp stuff. Did not see anything related to windows processes etc...

 

[itsp1965]

Even the standard task manager can do this for you. Say you start the application and it fires off the 20 threads. You can open task manager and select View->Select Columns, select all memory and paging options. From there, sort on image name (in the processes tab) and take a snapshot of the server when the app has first started. From there check again after a week.
If you want to use something more robust you can also use the Sysinternals tools now avail through MS.

http://www.sysinternals.com

 

[plsntnrules]

ok...sysinternals have a few useful tools I can work with..
Thanks for the help itsp1965