Has anyone else noticed that in Windows 11 the Total CPU usage and the CPU usage of processes don't match what is listed in Task Manager.
After I noticed I ran Prime95 to Stress the CPU. Task Manager went to 100% but DesktopInfo went to about 70%.
I think my CPU line is pretty standard
CPU=interval:1,background-interval:10,chart:line2 scale:linear max:100 series1:1 color1:00ff00 series2:2 color2:0000bb,threshold1:1 80 0000ff,threshold2:2 40 0000ff,display:Total: %1[2.0f]%, Krnl: %2[2.0f]%, Queue: %3
Online the closest I could find to this issue was on rain meter (seems like a similar monitoring software) https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=41353
I have noticed it and I would say the Rainmeter link you give has a reasonable explanation. The code DTI uses to get cpu info is, let's say, somewhat "legacy" and is capped to a certain number of cores.
You could add your own cpu counter using the WMI performance counter mentioned in that link, there's a full description at https://wutils.com/wmi/root/cimv2/win32_perfformatteddata_counters_processorinformation/
I will add that to my to-do list as an alternative to the CPU item in DTI.
Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to get it to show what I needed using the performance counters you suggested.
WMI=interval:1,id:cputotal,text:Cpu,chart:line2 scale:linear max:100 series1:%PercentProcessorUtility% color1:00ff00,threshold:80 0000ff, namespace:rootcimv2,query:Win32_PerfFormattedData_Counters_ProcessorInformation where Name like "_Total",display:Total: %PercentProcessorUtility%%
This seems to match Task Manager all they way up to 99%. Once task manager gets to 100% then DTI will say 150%. I assume that must be some processor specific hyper threading or something. Since I don't normally run at 100% unless I am testing this stuff it won't be an issue for me.
nice, i might steal that code 🙂
i think they mention in that thread things like cpu turbo boost etc that this wmi counter doesn't necessarily account for so seeing 150% is not surprising....
