Re: Monitor kernel process/thread CPU usage?

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From: James Antognini [MSFT] (jantogni_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:06:33 -0700

Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com will show threads within a
process, such as the System process. If you double-click on System (or any
process), you'll get a window with threads. If you click on a thread in that
window, you'll see user and kernel CPU time given in the grey part of the
window below. 

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James Antognini
Windows DDK Support
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"Hannes" <hannes@nospam.nospam> wrote in message 
news:5674352E-6C8F-435C-86FF-46BB05368FFE@microsoft.com...
> When Task Manager reports 'System' using 50% CPU, is there any way to 
> figure
> out *which* kernel process(es) that is using that time?
>
> The task Manager nicely line up all user space processes along with their
> CPU usage and other stats, but it offers no information on kernel threads.
>
> Is there any tool available, similar to task manager, that can monitor
> kernel space processes?
>
> Thanks,
>
>          / Hannes.

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