Configuring Performance Charts in System Monitor

System Monitor uses the dynamic data information in the Registry to report on the state of processes. You can use System Monitor to do the following:

• Monitor real-time system performance and compare it with historical performance to help identify trends over time.
• Determine system capacity and identify bottlenecks.
• Monitor the effects of system configuration changes.

To use System Monitor to track performance problems

1. Click the Edit menu, and then click Add Item.
2. In the Category list, click the resource that you want to monitor.
3. In the Item list, select one or more resources that you want to monitor.

   To select more than one item, press CTRL while clicking the items that you want to select. To select several items in a row, click the first item, and then press and hold down shift while clicking the last item.

   For more information about a selected resource, click the Explain button, which is dimmed until after step 3.

   

4. Click OK.

   To change the view of the data from a line chart to a bar chart or a numeric listing, click the related button on the button bar.

   

System Monitor offers menu commands for configuring the charts:

• To change the update interval, click the Options menu, and then click Chart.
• To configure the color and scaling for a selected item, click the Edit menu, and then click Edit Item.
• To control the display of the toolbar, status bar, and title bar, click the View menu, and then click Toolbar, Status Bar, or Hide Title Bar, respectively.