Task Manager

Question 1

What are the processes that can be seen in the Task Manager that don’t have the .exe extension?

Answer 1

Kernel processes that don’t have an executable (System, Registry, etc.)

Question 2

What does Suspended status mean?

Answer 2

all threads within a given process are suspended and the app cannot make any furhter progress

Question 3

What does the Not Responding status mean?

Answer 3

thread managing the UI didn’t examine its message queue for at least 5 seconds

Question 4

What is the correct column in Task Manager to look at to determine the private memory used by a process (whether in physical memory or not)?

Answer 4

Commit size

Question 5

How to add the Commit size column?

Answer 5

Task Manager > Details > right click > Select Columns > Commit size

Question 6

What does Memory (active private working set) mean?

Answer 6

memory that is only used by the process and not shared with other processes (DLLs); only represents the physical memory - not good enough in terms of the total consumption of the process