Measuring device drivers CPU/IO utilization caused by my program
- by Lior Kogan
Sometimes code can utilize device drivers up to the point where the system is unresponsive.
Lately I've optimized a WIN32/VC++ code which made the system almost unresponsive. The CPU usage, however, was very low. The reason was 1000's of creations and destruction of GDI objects (pens, brushes, etc.). Once I refactored the code to create all objects only once - the system became responsive again.
This leads me to the question: Is there a way to measure CPU/IO usage of device drivers (GPU/disk/etc) for a given program / function / line of code?