Questions tagged [performance-counters]
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Windows command line tool for disk IO monitoring
I am looking at extracting disk IO statistics on Windows 2003 upon occurrence of some events, e.g. a long full GC occurring that is waiting a long time for CPU resource. I have read that Process Explorer allows you to do that, but it is a GUI based…
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louis xie
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Execute ps1 script when CPU threshold is meet
I'm looking for a function similar to Debug Diagnostics Collector.
Where you can setup a performance (or any counter) trigger (eg. above 50% CPU over 50 seconds). Once condition of a trigger are meet I would like to run a PS1 script.
Has anyone…
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Luke
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How to monitor MSMQ perfomance counters for different roles in windows cluster
By default it is not possible to view perf counters for clusterd instance of MSMQ in windows cluster. The solution is to create a registry key NetNameForPerfCounters and assign role name to it. This way it is possible to monitor only one role per…
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Aleksey Komarov
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Using Perfmon on Windows Server 2008 R2 Which counter value should be used for physical memory usage?
I am attempting to use Performance Monitor to set up a relevant User Defined Dataset on a Windows 2008 R2 Server. This is to track the performance costs incurred by an application that my team is developing.
One of the criteria I would like to…
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Christian
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How do I create performance counter instance names for two different iis applications
I have several iis servers setup visibly identically in different environments (Dev/Test/Staging/etc). Within iis, I have an app pool "MyApplicationAppPool" and three web applications running within that app pool: MyApplication1, MyApplication2,…
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How to make Perfmon automatically track same process for IIS with multiple sites?
I'm doing performance/load testing of my IIS6/Win2K3 server. I setup perfom by adding performance counters for the specific site I'm interested in (ie. w3wp#7).
The problem is -- I have to manually complete these steps for each test run assuming…
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SAN spec'ing and IOPS counters
I'd like to make sure that I'm measuring IOPS correctly across Windows and Linux servers. We're busy trying to figure out which SAN would best suit our environment and measuring IOPS across our servers is the kind of thing I just can't get wrong.…
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Strange behavior of the ASP.NET Applications Request/Sec performance counter
I have an application that is using GZIP compression, which is implemented in a third-party library. This library has a significant impact on processor utilization.
When I disabled this library and enabled Dynamic Compression module in IIS instead,…
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CPU performance counter not working in Windows 10 guest, VMWare ESXi host
CPU performance counters are not working inside my Windows 10 guest virtual machine. I run a bare metal VMWare ESXi (6.5) host.
As can be seen from the screen shot all other non-CPU performance counters are working, even the pass-through GPU…
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Permissions required to create a performance counter
I'm trying to grant an application running as a service on a Windows 2012 R2 machine to create performance counters.
I tried to add the service account the application is running under to the "Performance Monitor Users" group (as suggested in some…
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What performance statistics can I use to determine if hyperthreading will improve performance?
There are several questions asking if disabling hyperthreading will improve performance (e.g. like this). The answer (as it is to all performance questions) is of course "profile it on your workload".
As running experiments in a production…
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dave
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what does TCPV4 connections established perfmon counter mean?
We have around 60 windows based SMTP servers behind a load balancer. Out of these one server is taking significantly less traffic (1/10th) when compared to remaining servers. From perfmon, I see high 'connections established' count for the server in…
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No permission to access SQL server perfmon counters
My DBA team doesn't have access to SQL server 2005 standard performance counters.
What is the required permission that they should be granted? I found some registry entries, but they already have permissions there. they're not OS administrators.
Jakub Anderwald
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"Committed Bytes In Use" is high when there are plenty of "Available Bytes"
My windows computer keeps showing low on memory message so I used performance monitor to check memory status. The results are:
Commit Limit: 25,758,334,976 (bytes)
Committed Bytes: 23,730,569,976 (bytes)
Committed Bytes In Use: …
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YantingChen
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XenServer 6.5 Zeroed Performance Metrics for IOPS
In one of my XenServer 6.5 pools, I'm adding some graphs in XenCenter to measure my iSCSI storage IOPS and throughput performance and I'm getting no response. The graph is actually responsive, but values are kept on zero.
That issue occurred only…
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Maurício Mota
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