Process causing CPU spike; Is there an easy way to find out which is the offending process?

spanky

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hello.

i have a system here with a process that periodically spikes. for example, please see this pic. is there an easy for me to find out which process is the offending party? i realize that i could just stare at the processes list and wait for the cpu spike, but is there a more practical way? Thanks in advanced!
 

Zensal

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Go to the Processes tab and sort by CPU. Watch the top process. Its probably some windows network process or something.
 

spanky

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Originally posted by: Zensal
Go to the Processes tab and sort by CPU. Watch the top process. Its probably some windows network process or something.

hey, thanx for the post. however, thats sort of what i was trying to avoid. i didn't wanna just sit there and wait the processes list.

anyway, i found a solution to my prob. basically... i had a idea of which process it may be (oracle.exe). so what i did was, i went to Start > Admin Tools > Performance.

under console root, click on system monitor. on the graph on the right, right click and select properties. under the data tab, click the add button. check select counters from computer. under the perfomance objects list, click process. under select conters from list, choose % processor time. under select instances from list, choose oracle.exe. then click the close button. then choose a color for your graph. then click ok. now i have a graph of the oracle process cpu usage.