Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Monitoring Processes

The first tab on the Task Manager, in the detailed view, is the Processes tab. It provides a list of running processes, or image names, on the server. It also measures the performance in simple data format. This information includes CPU percent used and memory allocated to each process.

You can sort the processes by clicking the CPU or Memory column header. The processes are then sorted in order of usage. This way, you can tell which one is using the most of these resources and is slowing down performance of your server. You can terminate a process by selecting the process and clicking the End Task button.

The new heat map concept translates well in the CPU & Memory Utilization columns of the Processes tab, where darker orange ...