Department of Computer Science, University of The People.
CS 3307: Operating Systems II.
Dr. Crystal Cummings
March 21, 2024
When it comes to ensuring that a computer system continues to function effectively and efficiently, monitoring and regulating the processes that make up the system is an essential component. I will illustrate the process of finding applications that require a significant amount of memory, assessing which processes are safe to discontinue, and ultimately discontinuing a process that is not essential in order to improve the performance of the system.
Monitoring System Processes -.
Monitoring of system processes enables us to keep track of the utilization of resources, particularly memory, central processing unit, and disk utilization. Task Manager (Windows) and Activity Monitor (Mac) are two examples of the built-in components that are included in the majority of operating systems. I am able to find possible candidates for termination by observing the programs or processes that consume the most memory, so that I can utilize these tools.…show more content… Process Monitor is a highly sophisticated monitoring tool for Windows that provides live updates on file system, registry, and process/thread activity. This tool brings together the functionalities of two older Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon. It also includes a wide range of improvements, such as advanced filtering options that don't alter the original data, detailed event properties like session IDs and user names, accurate process information, complete thread stacks with built-in symbol support for every operation, the ability to log to a file simultaneously, and many other useful features. With its exceptional capabilities, Process Monitor will become an essential tool in your arsenal for system troubleshooting and malware detection (Markruss,
