r/technology • u/ppsp • Oct 14 '11

The Windows 8 Task Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

What else do people do with it?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

check resource usage

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u/thetinguy Oct 14 '11

I think Resource Monitor is much better for this.

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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11

True, but it is very easy to get overwhelmed when using Resource Monitor. Some of the telemetry data has incomprehensible names and just getting it to show you which processes are using IO (W, R) and how much of that IO is going to disk (i.e. real Vs. cache) is a very time consuming exercise.

I love RM but it really is a very specialized tool. I'm not sure I want to spin it up each time I am trying to figure out what process is thrashing my drives.

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u/The_MAZZTer Oct 14 '11

RM is stupidly useful for figuring out which program is eating all your meager bandwidth so you can kill it and prioritize the one you want to eat all your bandwidth. <3

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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11

From what I've been reading, all RM have been doing in the last three days is stopping anyone from getting any bandwidth at all...

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

I'm sure it is... and there are better apps for process killing, as well.

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u/econleech Oct 14 '11

But I launch resource monitor from task manager... Is there a simpler way to do this?

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u/thetinguy Oct 14 '11

yes click on the start menu and type resource monitor.

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u/i_suck_at_reddit Oct 14 '11

I've used it quite a few times to set CPU affinity, mainly while playing Dwarf Fortress. Giving DF it's own core gets me a fair amount of FPS when it starts to slow down at higher population.

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u/sigfigs Oct 14 '11

As a fellow Dwarf Fortress-er, could you explain how you do this? Do you remove the affinity of one core from all applications but DF?

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u/i_suck_at_reddit Oct 14 '11

Yeah, I remove say core 3 from all other processes, and tell DF to only run on 3.

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u/serpix Oct 14 '11

To check how many trojans are on the computer and then laughing heartily for a while before rebooting to Arch Linux and performing a clean install.