Impact on performance of the logging feature

Tuyau

New Member
What is the impact on performance of HWiNFO64's logging feature? Most specifically, having all sensors logged vs. just a few ones, and also the impact of the polling period on logging.

Basically I would like to know if I can run HWiNFO64's logging feature along demanding software without having a noticeable impact on performance caused by HWiNFO64.
 

Martin

HWiNFO Author
Staff member
That depends on your drive's performance and cache buffers.
But generally logging should have only minimal impact as each cycle writes only a couple of hundreds of bytes and this is first buffered in memory (unless you have the "Write Direct To Disk (No Buffering)" option enabled).
 

Kiriakos-GR

Well-Known Member
I am coming from the electrical test and measurement world, we do data logging, high speed = 20 measurements per second, and or calibration logging = every 10S or more.

HWiNFO64 uses default sample rate once per second = 1000ms = CPU usage this is unable to be detected with a regular i7-4770 (0~1%).
For fun I did test 250ms = four times per second, and I succeed 3% CPU usage (20 parameters active monitor).

My regular setting for long logging session this is 10000ms = every 10S ( inspecting thermals when gaming )
In conclusion, they are a pack of options for you to choose from.
 
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