PROGRAMMING ASSIGN, UNIT 5

PROCESS EXPLORER LAB

UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE
CS 2301

1. Provide screen shot of resulting page after running the Process Explorer utility

The following screenshots represent the usage pattern changes when: We start Excel, a minute after we have
started this program, and when we terminate this program.
Program Start

Program Executes
Program Terminates
 2. Comment of your physical memory usage and list or highlight on screen shot

My computer has 8 GB of RAM memory of which 3.3 GB is used to keep the system processes running. Physical
memory usage characteristics are highlighted in green. The changes in physical memory usage when the program
starts, runs, and terminates are the following values respectively: 3.3GB, 3.7GB, 3.6GB (ZHANG, LV, & ZHAI, 2007).

3. Comment of your kernel memory usage and list or highlight on screen shot

Kernel usage characteristics are highlighted in blue. The changes in kernel usage when the program starts, runs,
and terminates are the following values:

Start Execute Terminate

Paged WS 715356 KB 710664 KB 711976 KB
Paged virtual 750660 KB 746532 KB 747676 KB
Nonpaged 289276 KB 286936 KB 287476 KB
(ZHANG, LV, & ZHAI, 2007)

4. Comment of your paging and list or highlight on screen shot

The characteristic of the paging is highlighted in yellow in the stages of the assignments as follows: initial resulting
page stage 13778 KB, a minute after execution of Excel program 298 KB and a minute after termination of Excel
program in stage 116 KB, respectively (ZHANG, LV, & ZHAI, 2007).

5. Describe how this usage pattern changes when you start the program, a minute after you have started
this program, and when you terminate this program

The usage pattern changes in both physical memory and paging. There was an increase of 0.4 GB one minute after
starting the Excel program and a decrease of the same amount of just 0.1 GB after the termination of the Excel
program in physical memory. The paging drastically decreased from 13778 KB to 298 KB during the execution of
the program and continued to decrease even though the program was terminated, resulting in a final value of 116
KB, this phenomenon is abnormal and indicates that the operating system or processor does not it is working
optimally. As for the Kernel, it only showed slight changes in all its characteristics (ZHANG, LV, & ZHAI, 2007).

Conclusion

It is very interesting to know the processes carried out by the computer in a "hidden" manner and to be able to
verify the operation of the computer and the processor in real time.

References

ZHANG, H., LV, Z., & ZHAI, H. (2007). The Use of Process Explorer & Autoruns. Computer Knowledge and
Technology (Academic Exchange), 2007, 15.