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How can I find out what's the bottleneck slowing down a particular process / the entire system?

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Given a specific running process, is there a way to find out what hardware element is currently the bottleneck for its operation? In other words, is its current computation CPU-bound, GPU-bound, memory-bound, IO-bound, etc? Answers that work for Windows XP are preferable, but all answers are welcom…

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You can use the Microsoft XPERF tools to walk the stack and find bottle necks. You can only view the results on Vista/7 (or server 2008) but you can run the profile tool on XP. Pigs Can Fly has some really good articles on stackwalking with XPERF. W…

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