PMon Notes

General Information

PMon collects its data from the same source as System Monitor. You can use either tool to monitor process performance.
The PMon output table updates automatically every few seconds. To monitor PMon output over time, copy the table to a Notepad file periodically. You cannot redirect PMon output.
To identify a process, PMon lists the process name in the Image Name column. Processes are named for the executable file (image file) that started the process.
To detect a memory leak, monitor the Commit values on the second row of the output display. Constantly increasing values over several hours indicate a probable leak. Also, monitor the Commit Charge column over time. The process with increasing Commit Charge values is likely to be the one that is leaking memory.

Output Table Reference

This table lists and describes the columns in the PMon output.

CPU	Displays the percentage of current processor use that is attributable to the process.
CpuTime	Displays the accumulated time that the processor has spent executing threads in the process since the process began.
MemUsage	Displays the current size of the working set of the process, in kilobytes.
Page Faults	Displays the cumulative total number of page faults generated by the process since it began. A page fault occurs when a process accesses virtual memory that is not currently located in physical memory and must be read from disk.
Flts Diff	Displays the change in the number of page faults for the process recorded since the last update.
Commit Charge	Displays the amount of virtual memory allocated to and reserved for the process, in kilobytes. This field has the same value as the Process\Private Bytes counter in System Monitor.
Usage NonP	Displays the amount of memory in the nonpaged pool used by the process, in kilobytes.
Usage Page	Displays the amount of memory in the paged pool used by the process, in kilobytes.
Pri	Displays the base priority of the process. The base priority, which is established by the program running in the process, determines the range within which the operating system can vary the dynamic priorities of the process threads. The dynamic priority determines the order in which threads run on the processor.
Hnd Cnt	Displays the number of open handles currently attributed to the process.
Thd Cnt	Displays the number of threads currently running in the process.
Image Name	Displays the name of the executable file that started the process.