Task Manager/Profiling tool?

[kenn]

Can anyone recommend a good tool for measuring CPU usage of applications on the TREQ-M4?

At a minimum, a Task Manager-like tool would be useful. The only one I've found that works at all on the M4 is this one: http://www.vttoth.com/LPK/TASKMGR_CE5/index.html. However, it's built for CE 5.0 and I don't trust it completely (e.g. the "Performance" tab shows a completely wrong number of threads in the system and I suspect that it sometimes attributes CPU usage to the wrong application).

A fully-fledged function or line-level profiler would be great too, if there is a good one around.

Thanks,
Kenn

[danieln]

Kenn,

I'm not familiar with any at the moment. I'll make sure to keep it in mind though, and post a reply if I find something.

[danieln]

You may have already known about it, and I'm not sure if it will do what you want, but a command line utility is available for viewing information about running processes:

Instead of running "cmd" from the start->run menu instead run:
"shell -c"

You'll then be presented with a new shell where you can execute various commands. Some that are relevant to your original questions may be:

gi proc
gi delta

Hopefully this may help.

[Damon8or]

There are tools by Microsoft for platformbuilder, which is now an add on to VS2005. They include a Remote Call Profiler, Kernel Tracker, and Performance Monitor. If you are just looking for basic task manager stuff, you can download and run either of these -
http://www.vttoth.com/LPK/taskmanager.html
http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm

These guys have a compact framework profiler, never tried it though.
http://www.eqatec.com/tools/profiler/

Here are Windows CE 6.0 downloads. Download and install in the order below. They are all ISO images. I used this tool to simply mount the images directly rather than burn DVDs, http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso- ... erview.htm.

Once you download you need to connect to the TREQ-M4 over serial active sync. The tools install in VS2005 in a new Target menu. TREQ-M4 doesn't show in the connection dialogs, you have to use the "Windows CE Default Platform"->Default Device and configure it to use active sync. I also had to copy some tools oinstalled on my desktop from an ...\ARM4V to an ...\ARM4Vi folder. I don't recall the full paths but you can google the error. The link I had detailing the paths went dead - FWIW here it is http://www.microsoft.com/communities/ne ... &sloc=&p=1



Windows CE 6.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Windows CE 6.0 SP 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Windows CE 6.0 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Windows CE 6.0 R3
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

[kenn]

Thanks. A combination of Remote Performance Monitor (for coarse-grained data) and Kernel Tracker (for fine-grained analysis) are working for me.

Later,
Kenn