[SOLVED] Performance Under Known Load

[Rodney_Wolfe]

I'm in simulation. Is there a software that will measure PC performance while the simulation is running full tilt so one can determine how much headroom it still has? I'm wanting to test 2 simulation packages to see how much more resource-intensive one of them is, but in my industry, graphs & documentation is everything i.e. I can't just look at Performance Monitor and gauge it.
I don't think I want benchmarking software because I think it assumes an idle PC and then runs its own stress tests on a basically load-free PC.
Any ideas?

 

[kanewolf]

You would HOPE that the simulation will use all resources. If you could run the same model in each package you could compare the runtimes.

You can limit the number of cores available in Windows. You can disable hyperthreading in the BIOS. There are tools that can allow you to limit RAM for processes.

You can use windows Resource monitor -- https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/28/a-detailed-windows-resource-monitor-guide/ to get detailed data. You can get it to dump a logfile -- https://superuser.com/questions/331...e-of-what-the-windows-resource-monitor-record