Questions tagged [performance-counters]
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Why am I getting performance counter errors?
I am trying to write C# code to access a computer (XP sp2) remotely to find out if a process is running. I don't know much about performance counters other than what I've been reading in the past couple of days, but here is my problem:
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What's the difference between Memory\Pool Paged Bytes and Process(_Total)\Paged Pool Bytes
(Be gentle with me, I'm a developer, not a server guy)
I'm looking at some issues with custom code I have, and I'm tracking pool usage on a Windows Server 2008 machine. I'm confused about some performance counters though.
Memory\Pool Paged Bytes on…
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Which value of HDD avgqu-sz is critical?
This is my graph of HDD avgqu-sz from different app machines:
App caches data in memory and every n minutes are data flushed to filesystem + every m minutes are data (re)loaded from filesystem in memory. That's the reason of the spikes. Block…
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Event ID: 2002 Source: IIS-W3SVC-PerfCounters on Windows Server 2012
My server is showing on Event Viewer this error every hour.
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-IIS-W3SVC-PerfCounters
Date: 03/10/14 9:07:42
Event ID: 2002
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: …
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Using Powershell to get a group of specific perfmon counters
I'm trying to set up a script that generates blg files every set amount of time, using powershell. I know this can be done using perfmon XML templates, but for this specific project I have to do it with powershell if at all possible.
My main issue…
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Count instances of application using Windows Performance Counters
I have a terminal services server that runs instances of a thick-client application and serves them up to users via RemoteApp. In order to do some capacity planning I would like to continuously log some performance counter data such as CPU usage,…
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How to clear/reset the top-commands TIME counter
To find a performance problem I use "top" commands TIME column in cumulative mode (which is important for me because it also captures all the small executed child processes)
When any changes in the software have been made I want to see the impact…
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which performance counters mainly matter for windows server performance?
We have a website which is sometimes performing slowly, and / or completely hangs. I have setted up temporarily the default system performance data collector in Performance Monitor, to see if this can shed some light.
However, the default Data…
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Performance Counter - % Disk Time and Avg. Disk Queue Length
% Disk Time - How often is the disk busy? If it's busy almost all of the time, and there is a large queue, the disk might be a bottleneck. This value is displayed as a percentage and is capped at 100%.
This is the definition from Microsoft.…
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Local performance counters show up when adding remote counters in PerfMon
I'm trying to get performance counters of machine A (server running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit) in PerfMon. PerfMon is running on machine B (another server used as a desktop). The goal of this is to run load tests against web sites served by…
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Performance counter categories appear as numbers. How do I fix this?
I'm on a server (VM) and I have errors accessing performance counters (category does not exist). When I open Perfmon and try add a counter, I see this list of numbers in the list of categories. How can I fix this?
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How do I make Performance Monitor always log the time AND date?
I have been using Performance Monitor to keep an eye on Non-Paged Memory usage over the last few months. From the csv files generated I have been creating graphs to make it easy to pin point problem periods. However after awhile (looks like 7…
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Performance Counter for tracking 503 - Server Unavailable from IIS
I have an ASP.NET 4.0 Web Service running on IIS 6.0. I am trying to locate the appropriate Performance Counter to track 503 responses. I have limited "Web site connections" to 1 for testing purposes and have verified in my client that I am…
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ASPNET WMI class not available
I need to extract the ASPNET\Requests Queued performance counter from some IIS servers via WMI.
The WMI class for this sort of thing appears to be contained in Win32_PerfFormattedData_ASPNET_ASPNET. I've queried all available classes in root\cimv2…
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Event log and performance counters correlation
Anyone else often having a need to correlate multiple log sources such as event log or various log files with performance counters when troubleshooting Windows machines?
For example, we had a case of memory and CPU performance peaking periodically,…
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