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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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Importing performance monitor settings from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008?

On Windows Server 2003, I have some performance counters set up in Performance Monitor (perfmon). I would like to use these same counters on some new Windows Server 2008 servers. How do I import these performance counters to 2008? In 2003 I can…
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Is this a Disk Bottleneck?

I have configured perfmon in order to see if the server disk has a problem. The Avd Disk Write Queue Length is the white line The % Processor is the black line that was never over 50% From what I know this should never happen unless the disk has a…
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Windows Performance Monitor keeps trying to add unwanted counters

I have been running a Data Collector Set for SQL Server for a week, and everything was going just fine until I tried clicking on Action -> Save Current View and now it always tries to add the following counters automatically to my…
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Perfmon for SQL Server from local machine

I'm following Brent Ozar's video on Benchmarking and Baselining, and I've got a data collector set on my local machine set up to hit a remote sql server, but I can't get the collection to start. I right click it to start and the perfmon window…
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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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What's the diff between "Committed Bytes" and "Pool Nonpaged Bytes"

I have seen on some blogs the differences regarding Committed Bytes and Pool Nonpaged Bytes. I thought both were reserved memories for NT systems that cannot be written to a pagefile.sys. So what is the diffenrence?
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Perfmon no alerts

I'm trying to setup a simple monitor that triggers when disk space reaches a minimum threshold. To do this I have: created a new user defined data collector set selected 'Manual' for creation type selected 'Performance Counter Alert' as the type of…
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How do I convert the perfmon counters in the Performance Monitor to something that can log those for me?

How do I convert the perfmon counters in the Performance Monitor to something that can log those for me? Do I need to create a data collector set and go back and select each one by hand? I'm trying to avoid doing it by hand, because I'm lazy.
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Performance Monitor can't add counters from .NET data providers

I'm trying to monitor my database connections with Performance Monitor, but for some reason I can no longer add the counters. Every set of counters OTHER than the two .NET Data Providers (for Oracle and SQL Server) works fine. This was working not…
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PerfMon / MMC Hangs

I'm "playing" with PerfMon - it's the firs time I've ever spent any real time in it. Everything is fine and then I will perform an action (like trying to bring up the properties of a counter I have added to the real-time monitor graph) and it…
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check_nrpe and non-fixed counter names

For some counters I have noticed Windows convently does provide a stable name for them, for example: \.NET Data Provider for SqlServer(_lm_w3svc_3_root-1-123412341234[6789]\Number of Free Conections Where god knows what 1234 is and 6789 is the PID.…
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Perfmon Total Counters: 32-Bit Wrap Around?

For counters in Windows Server 2008 R2 that count the total (instead of rate) at what number do they wrap around to zero? In this particular case I am interested in \Web Service(_Total)\Total Get Requests. Are they always maybe 32bit or 64bit. Or…
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What SQL Server Query will set perfmon counter "Longest Transaction Running Time" > 0

I'm trying to decide whether this performance counter is worthwhile monitoring: \\SERVER\MSSQL:Transactions\Longest Transaction Running Time. So during testing I tried to create some long running transactions but I can't seem to get this counter to…
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Windows performance monitor new instances

I am trying to configure performance monitor on 2003/2008R1&R2 to capture new instances of the counters without any luck. For example if I select counter Process\%Processor time (to monitor processor time per any instances of the process)…
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what should be monitored for baseline sql server performance

What are the baseline perfmon counters for monitoring SQL Server and what do they mean?
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