Procmon
A small system monitor for your computer. It shows what is using your memory, processor and disk, and lets you stop what is stuck.
What it does
- Overview
- Processor, memory, graphics, network, disk, energy and devices on one screen.
- Memory
- Where your RAM is going and which apps hold it. Apps that sit idle with a lot of memory are marked, with a button to quit them.
- Activity
- What the processor is doing, and any process that is stuck, spinning or burning CPU, with the fix next to it.
- Threads
- Click a process to quit, force quit or pause it, and to see every thread. Blocked threads come first, and reading the stacks shows what each one is waiting on.
- Storage
- What fills your disk, drawn as boxes you can click into. Old caches, logs and temporary files can be reviewed and deleted.
- Devices
- Connected hardware, and whether its drivers are running.
Install
- macOS
- Open the
.dmgand drag Procmon into Applications. The first time you scan your whole disk it asks once for Full Disk Access. If you say no, it leaves the protected folders out and does not ask again. - Linux
- Unpack the archive and run
./install.sh, or install the.deb. - Windows
- Unzip it and run
procmon.exe. - Checksums
- The SHA-256 sum of every download is in SHA256SUMS.txt.