Questions tagged [perfmon]
Performance Monitor is a program to monitor and log system performance on Microsoft Windows. From command-line invocation it is also known as PerfMon, perfmon, perfmon.exe and perfmon.msc, and in some versions of Windows it is known as System Monitor.
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Windows "iowait" CPU utilization reporting
Does Windows account for and report "iowait" in the same manner as Linux? That is, processes enter "uninterruptible sleep" and their time spent is subtracted from "CPU free"?
If so, which Perfmon ...
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Understanding %DiskTime in Perfmon
I have a server that's been jumping around 100-700 %DiskTime for the past few days.
I understand this indicates an I/O bottleneck -- but what do I do from here? What do I need to check or change in ...
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Task Manager Processor %
Related to this question: How can a Perfmon "% Processor Time" counter be over 100%?
I was manually observing processes in Task Manager when a user reported a problem and the Oracle process ...
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Automating a collection of Perfmon counters
I have a specific setup I'm investigating to solve a specific need we have:
I have a lab that consists of 3 machines, which runs load tests and oversees other investigations as needed. During the ...
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How frequently does PerfMon write to a datasource?
I am looking at running perfmon on our servers and storing the data to a data source, which is relatively easy to do. However, my concern is with how frequently Perfmon will perform data updates.
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Oracle Counters for Perfmon
How to install Oracle Counters for Windows Performance Monitor (and operfcfg.exe) on a separate machine (other than the machine where Oracle Database Server is installed) ?
The Oracle database version ...
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What is System Code Total Bytes
I am trying to use perfmon, and according to MSDN, the "System Code Total Bytes" counter ...
Shows the size, in bytes, of pageable operating system code currently in virtual memory. It is a measure ...
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Perfmon not logging to SQL Server
I'm trying to use an established Data Collector Set to start loggging perfmon counters to a local SQL Database (on a local SQL instance). However, here's what my current setup looks like:
And when I ...
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Average Disk Sec/Transfer
I imported a perfmon CSV into the Pal tool and it formulated the ugly csv into something very readable. . However I'm unable to identify the amount of IOPS that's being reported. I'm not sure, but ...
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Network applications with high % of system time
I have an Windows 2003 (don't laugh) server with 10GbE connectivity processing data coming to it over the network and sending it back out.
Here's the graph of overall system performance and the ...
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Why aren't custom performance counters being recorded by my PerfMon data collector set?
I have six custom performance counters that were created by a .NET app. When I open Performance Monitor and add them to the live view, those counters are displayed correctly. I can see the values I ...
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Add perfmon counter from remote machine
Have a strange issue where one user on Windows 2008 Server R2 can add performance counters from a different server (same OS) but a second user can't because
cannot connect to remote machine.
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Perfmon Configuration or Alert Utility for CPU usage over period of time.
I'm familiar with general perfmon configuration. However, is there a way to alert when the CPU goes to say 95%, but only if it stays there for over X minutes?
If not, does anyone know a free/cheap ...
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Windows 2008 R2: Perfmon, multiple data collection sets, it is possible
I'm trying to set up some performance monitoring on our web servers.
I thought it would make sense to have 2 separate data collection sets, one with counters for the hardware and OS and another for ...
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In Windows 7, why can't I use perfmon against a remote server?
I am on Windows 7 and trying to run perfmon against Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. I am running into the same issue with all remote machines.
When creating a data collector set, I specify a ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent for Snap Kit?
We are hosting a 3rd-party app on a Windows workstation and we are receiving window degredation / zero window at the receive window, which is not justified by any communication behind the box.
We've ...
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Perfmon counters for monitoring general IIS/MSSQL server activity
I have a virtual server with a hosting company so CPU and RAM are limited. I need to watch load/performance over time to know when to upgrade the server.
The site runs multiple ASP.NET apps as well ...
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Monitoring "Request Wait Time" in PerfMon
A website I'm load testing is adding requests to the iis request queue. I can see the queue size getting bigger using the relevant performance counter:
\ASP.NET\Requests Queued
However I'm trying to ...
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Using Perfmon counters only, how can I determine host CPU contention / overload?
I'm running VMWare and have an ESX host that is running at 100% CPU. I also have two Exchange 2010 CAS servers that are running at 100% CPU,
Here are some additiona observations:
The sum of the ...
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Performance Counters in Perfmon/Server 2008 R2
I am trying to setup perfmon on a Windows 2008 R2 server to monitor memory usage on a server for 1 week. I have never used perfmon before, but some basic tutorials explained how to pick between ...
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View the performance counters I have added to a Data Collector set after creation on Windows Server 2008 R2
I have been working on creating a Data Collector Set to use to collect relevant performance information for an application my team is developing. I am using Performance Monitor on a Windows 2008 R2 ...
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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 ...
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Capturing Memory / IO counters for ASP.NET Web Applications in IIS
I have an ASP.NET 4.5 (Web API) web application hosted in IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2. This web application is hosted in it's own application pool using the Integrated pipeline.
I am trying to use ...
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Connecting to Remote Server Using Performance Monitor Does Not Work
I'm having a problem when attempting to perform a PerfMon trace on a remote server. The server is Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The reason for performing this trace is that SQL Server seems to be ...
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Monitor Windows 7 Performance Counters from Server 2012
I want to monitor performance counters on my Windows 7 Machines from Windows Server 2012.
Right now, I have two Windows 7 machines that can monitor each other's performance counters no problem. To ...
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Is it safe to leave System Performance Data Collector Set running
I have created a user defined data collector set from the system performance template. I've made no changes to the counters. I can run it manually and it works fine but runs for 1 only minute. Yes, I ...
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Permissions Issue with Files Generated by PerfMon
We are trying to implement some data logging to CSV files using a Data Collector Set in PerfMon (on a windows Server 2008R2 system).
The issue we are running into is that we (seemingly) can't control ...
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Which perfmon counter watches for incoming SMB connections on W2K3 server?
Which perfmon counter watches for incoming SMB connections on W2K3 server? I'm trying to see if the SMB command queue is full at times or not... Or are there even better ways to find this?
On a w2k3 ...
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Representing server state with a metric
I'm using Microsoft's Performance Monitor to dump logs of RAM, CPU, network, and disk usage from multiple servers. I'd like to get a single metric that captures the state of a given variable to a good ...
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Getting RAM info from Performance Monitor [duplicate]
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Total RAM % from perfmon Windows Server 2008 R2
I'm trying to get the percent of memory used from PerfMon. Essentially, I want to see the number that's available from Windows ...
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SYSTEM process not having write privileges
I'm running a process from the user SYSTEM. (In the Task Manager, the process is being run by the User Name SYSTEM, not my username.) Even though I'm an admin, the process can't write files over DFS ...
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Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 w3wp PerfMon monitoring
We have a number of web applications set up as Virtual Directories under one web site on Windows 2003/IIS 6.0 servers. Each VirDir has a dedicated App Pool. One of my users wanted to know if I could ...
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PerfMon counters have different Page File % Usage values for _Total and C:\pagefile.sys for SQL Server on VM
I am collecting PerfMon counters on a SQL Server 2008 server (which is hosted on a VM), and I am getting different Page File % Usage values for _Total and C:\pagefile.sys. The C:\pagefile.sys values ...
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Setting up perfmon across various servers
I set up some performance gathering in Performance Monitor (perfmon) on a particular server. (I setup a Data Collector Set for the server, with specific Data Collectors, setup start and stop condition,...
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Running perfmon continuously with periodic reports
I have a question very similar to this one, but I want to continuously run perfmon, during reboots and throughout the day. Further, I'd like to generate a perfmon report every 10 mins or so. The ...
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Restore Perfmon Action/View Menus after hiding?
In Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Service Pack 2:
Start > Run... > perfmon
Select menu View > Customize...
Uncheck option "Standard menus (Action and View)"
Select button "OK"
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How do I run perfmon against a remote machine?
For starters I'm trying to do this from a Windows 7 box to a Windows 7 box.
I know the simple answer should be to enter \\computername where it says "Select Counters From Computer". Trouble is, every ...
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perfmon reporting higher IOPs than possible?
We created a monitoring report for IOPs on performance counters using Disk reads/sec and Disk writes/sec on four servers (physical boxes, no virtualization) that have 4x 15k 146GB SAS drives in RAID10 ...
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Why is ASP.NET not in the performance monitor?
I have a Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 server. It's virtual, not that that should make any difference. It's only purpose in life is running IIS 7 and it does that quite nicely. However, when I go ...
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Perfmon - Redirector current command 0 result
I'd like to monitor how many SMB connections there are at any given time for my 2008R2 file server, but when I add Redirector/Current Commands in perfmon, I get 0 results.
This KB from Microsoft isn't ...
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Is there a perfmon replacement? [closed]
I need faster stats polling and more granular display than once a second... Is there a way to configure perfmon to poll/display on faster intervals? Or is there an alternative that can query the same ...
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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 ...
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Windows equivalent performance counters in Linux with Sysstat (or similar)
I administer a range of both Windows and Linux servers. On the Windows servers, I have the following performance counters logging every 15 seconds to a CSV file:
Bottleneck analysis:
Processor Queue ...
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What could be cause of ASP.NET State Server timeout?
I recently migrated an app from SQL Server backed sessions to the ASP.NET State Server. About once a week there is a brief failure of ASP.NET to connect to the state server. These last from 20 ...
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How to bring Paging File usage metric to zero?
I am trying to tune a SQL Server. Per Brent Ozar's Performance Tuning Video, he says the PerfMon's
Paging File:%Usage should be zero or ridiculously close to it. The average metric on my box is ...
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Cache Total Entries increase and decrease as a delta shape. Why?
My performance counter "cache total entries" "cache total hits" "cache total misses" keeps increasing and decreasing as a delta shape around every 1 hour.The decreasing is much fast than increasing. ...
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Interpretation of typeperf counters for loopback interface
I have collected performance statistics using typeperf for the following counters:
Network Interface(MS TCP Loopback interface)\Bytes Total/sec 10 203 372
Network Interface(MS TCP Loopback ...
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Performance Monitor ( perfmon ) - how to open .blg file
I have recorded data through perfmon.msc, and save the data. The extension of the Data is .blg.
Whenever i double click the file the below windows get open.
here, i can't see any log which i have ...
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How to keep log / keep record of one particular Process
In my Task Manager, there is one process (.exe)
I want to keep log or keep record of that process i.e how much cpu % it is utilizing for a particular time \ Day.
for example :- abc.exe process
Can ...
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Total RAM % from perfmon Windows Server 2008 R2
I am trying to find a good way to get available RAM percentage from perfmon. I can get Available Mbytes but I can't find any way to get the total installed memory on the server or what is in use via ...