Freeware CPU Usage Monitor?

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Are there any freeware programs which can check if a program is using
100% of CPU cycles and issue an alert?

Thanks in advance
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Well, I don't know of one that has an alarm, but...

Another Task Manager 3.0
ATM is an application ideated for power-users who actually want to handle
their systems. It provides a real-time capability to monitor all processes
and threads, their CPU usage, execution time, etc. It allows you to
completely manage the system priority of all running processes and threads.
You can even set a DPC (Dynamic Priority Controller) which can switch
between two defined priorities specifying a time-slice for both. It allows
you to know which are the system handles opened by all processes. You can
even spy and control all system windows. ATM offers even a built-in CPU
cooling function. It is based on the x86 HLT instruction which is called
only when the system is idle, so it doesn't affects other tasks. Naturally,
you can uncheck it whenever you want. License: Freeware, Size: 158 Kb,
Requires: Win 9x/ME

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=417

or if you use:

TclockEx you can set it to monitor your CPU as a bar atop your clock in the
System tray and you can always have an at-a-glance view of your cpu usage
in real time - although you won't know which program is the hog until you
shut it down or first start it up. Freeware, version 1.4.2 Windows
9x/NT/2000
Filesize: 467,894 bytes for .exe, 194,464 bytes for .zip

http://users.iafrica.com/d/da/dalen/tclockex.htm

Lastly I know of:

Active CPU (ACPU) - easy to use tool for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 that
enables you to watch a graphical representation of your CPU's activity.
When ACPU is running, an accurate miniature CPU usage gauge appears on the
taskbar on the end opposite the "Start" button. When you touch it with the
cursor, it displays the percentage of processor use in text format.
Download (450Kb)

http://www.ntutility.com/freeware.html
 
Are there any freeware programs which can check if a program is using
100% of CPU cycles and issue an alert?

Thanks in advance
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just stumbled across this too. alas, still no alarm

QCpu

QCpu displays the usage of the cpu (processor) of your computer in a nice
scrolling graph.

It is fully customizable, you can change the update speed, the foreground
and background color, and even more things! 182,751 bytes

http://www.twansoft.com/qserie/qcpu.shtml
 
1. Due to the nature of RAM, it does not need to be "free". Stuff that is
old gets overwritten as fast as if it were empty. If a program causes a
resource leak, this cannot be recovered by these types programs... you just
need to restart windows.

2. I am probably talking into the wind to those who think their memory
managers are cool. Why do I even bother?
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So people can learn from it?

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John said:
Are there any freeware programs which can check if a program is using
100% of CPU cycles and issue an alert?
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CPULoad is a lovely little prog that sits in your systray and shows
cpu load as a line which thickens as the load increases. Thus you can
always see 100% load because you have a black square in the systray.
This is enormously useful in that it tells you if a program is still
working and if it is safe to open another one. No audible alert, but
you get very used to watching the black line as you put load on the
system. It uses virtually no resources itself and is a 11k download

http://www.softcom.net/users/mikey719/freeware_page6.html
 
CPULoad is a lovely little prog that sits in your systray and shows
cpu load as a line which thickens as the load increases. Thus you can
always see 100% load because you have a black square in the systray.
This is enormously useful in that it tells you if a program is still
working and if it is safe to open another one. No audible alert, but
you get very used to watching the black line as you put load on the
system. It uses virtually no resources itself and is a 11k download

http://www.softcom.net/users/mikey719/freeware_page6.html
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Thanks for the link Terry!

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech
 
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:41:56 GMT, Spacey Spade

2. I am probably talking into the wind to those who think their memory
managers are cool. Why do I even bother?
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That's the sort of question that, those of us who have improved system
performance due to memory managers, might be asking.

Regards, John.
 
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