SysInternals procmon.exe and procexp.exe are the only things I really miss when on Linux (either developing or just troubleshooting Firefox being slow again.)
A few procmon features you probably weren't aware of:
- It can log your boot process (by loading a driver very early in the boot process)
- It stores a lot of details about every line of output, including a stack trace (!), accessible by doubleclicking
You could setup something almost like it. mlocate is the defacto indexed filename search for linux, and the update script skips directories that haven't been updated - so an update call is quite cheap. You could run it every 15m, and have 'almost' uptodate indexed search.
Most systems should have it setup to run daily out of the box.
A few procmon features you probably weren't aware of:
- It can log your boot process (by loading a driver very early in the boot process)
- It stores a lot of details about every line of output, including a stack trace (!), accessible by doubleclicking