First of all, i want to say the app is perfect. Especially the notifications about services and things doing in background.
I would like to propose a feature request to show the current CPU frequency, and also i’ve noticed that only one Disk is showing in the tab (i have multiple nvme’s. Im not sure if Disk Usage is combined for both or shown only for one disk. It will be good if we have separate tabs for every other disk.
We had trouble splitting app usage per-disk, so that’s why we combined them. Otherwise we cannot show app usage easily. But, we’ll keep investigating and see if we can find a solution to that issue that is reliable.
Thanks also for your feedback on the CPU frequency also!
Hi, I’ve also noticed that there doesn’t seem to be a live network adapter usage tracker in AppControl? The thing I miss the most when comparing the standard Win10 Task Manager (which shows each individual network device) is a total count of bytes downloaded since the last reboot (which most task managers show in various Linux Distros that I’ve tried). And yes, you might say ‘who needs to see that anyway’, but I guess I’m some sort of sys-info freak/nerd!
@slickmrick yes, it’s true we don’t monitor the network at all. Thanks for giving feedback on adding network monitoring to AppControl. There are many apps that specialize in network monitoring, so we kind of fear doing that I think. Also with some third-party implementations of network monitoring on Windows it can slow the network activity slightly, so that’s another reason we worry about adding that.
Freshly installed, but I am loving what I see so far. You have nailed down many of TaskManager’s missing pieces quite nicely.
Almost every system I use has multiple physical disks, and given that disk performance is often a choking point for overall performance, adding multiple physical disk performance would be of great value to me (and I suspect many others). I saw a thread requesting separate partition performance, but for me physical disk performance has been the key indicator. I’m sure other users have had different experiences, but my experience has been multiple partitions across the same physical disk will have similiar performance, making physical disk performance more important to me.
I second the request for a graph of the average core speed, would be ideal to see it on the CPU tab, likely right between the CPU utilization graph and the temperature gauge. I have a pretty high performance tablet but being so thin it has low thermal headroom so it’s frequently throttling back the processor. A graph of the frequency puts processor load into perspective. You could have a normally consistent load without throttling, but when throttling is occurring, it makes the processor utilization percentages for processes very confusing since the processor usage graph is not normalized to the CPU operating frequency. For instance, I recently determined I occasionally get a BD PROCHOT condition. At first, I thought I had a virus or a messed up OS because everything would slow to a grinding halt, but then in Task Manager I happened to notice that my processor speed would randomly fall to 400MHz; with the help of AI, I was able to determine that BD PROCHOT was occurring when the processor reached 100 deg C (thermal paste probably needs to be reapplied which is an ESD-sensitive task that I’m avoiding at the moment). I don’t know that I need to know about the thermal throttling condition per se (implementing that may not be easy), but seeing a processor speed graph would make it possible to see the correlated scenario and eventually determine precisely why everything comes to such a sudden halt with tools like HWInfo or ThrottleStop.
Also, I wanted to give you guys major props for getting the CPU usage for AppControl down so low in performance mode! AppControl in performance mode has ~ 1/3rd the CPU usage of Task Manager and maybe 1/6th of Process Explorer
Thanks for your feedback and kind words about our own CPU usage!
Our team is discussing your comments, and I was just looking at Windows Task Manager’s speed/base speed to understand your comments better. We added this to our list of things to consider if we can get the data in a reasonable way!