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.
Questions tagged [perfmon]
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detecting which process consumes all the CPU
The CPU usage on my Windows Server spikes up to 100% every 22 minutes.
How do I know? I have set up a "Data Collector Set" in perfmon, ran it for several hours on my server and then viewed the log file. I can see that the CPU usage jumps to 100%…
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Does it make sense to use perfmon in a vSphere infrastructure?
vCenter has its own performance counters, so does it make sense to use perfmon to baseline or monitor things like IOPS of Windows VMs, or should I just be using vCenter counters instead?
Would perfmon counters even be accurate for these VMs?
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How do I measure initiated SSL connections per second on IIS?
I am running a stress test on a web application that is being proxied by IIS/Win2008R2 and want to measure the number of SSL Transactions Per Second going across it.
In production I have a F5 load balancer that throttles connections to its license…
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Performance Monitor Processor Time counter blank data
I setup a simple data collector with Performance Monitor to collect Processor time(CPU Usage in %) and SQL Statistics: Batch Requests/sec @ 15 second intervals to see if i can get some baselines and report back to our vendor.
I started the counter…
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Perfmon not working on remote MSMQ Queue
I am not sure if this has been asked before, but I have done a lot of searching and come up empty. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong questions or missing something quite basic here.
I have 7 Public MSMQ Queues on a Server 2008R2 box in a Domain.
I can…
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How do I interpret a very high Avg. Disk sec/Write perfmon value?
Short version: Is the perfmon screenshot shown below enough evidence to say "something is wrong with your storage system"?
Long version: I am debugging a performance problem: Some SQL Server query is fast on our system (even with the customer's…
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Server high memory and cpu - no leads
I've been asked to troubleshoot a server hosting our application at a client's facility.
The client has complained to us on two separate occasions in the last week - week and a half. In one instance they claimed the server's memory was "maxed out,"…
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Why does performance monitor show more cores than I have in my DL580 server?
I ran a performance monitor trace on two hp DL580 G7 servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 with 40 CPU cores. One perfmon trace showed the server having 60 cores, and the other trace showed 64 cores. Any explanation for this? See below screenshots…
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Perfmon showing only average values
I have a dataset of perfmon data for "\System\Context switches/sec" from a number of servers, I want to show the MAX, not the average. However, the perfmon tool will only show the averages.
I created the dataset by running perfmon with a data…
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Perfmon Child Processes Monitoring
I would like to monitor the process' threads performance including the child threads. Is it possible with perfmon? Currently it seams to only start monitoring already open threads.
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Logman user switch confusion
I'm setting up a powershell script that installs a logman counter on several servers that are in dire need of some performance monitoring.
The documentation states that the -u switch works with create update, start, stop, delete and query.…
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Win2008 perfmon data collector set doesn't start?
I'm trying to monitor my Windows 2008 R1 performance using perfmon, however, after creating a new data collection set in perfmon, it won't start at all.
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Tracking memory problems
I'm experiencing some trouble with my Windows Server 2008. We're using it for hosting a bunch (~50) of Web GIS applications on IIS.
This setup usually works very well, but when certain applications have certain setups, a leak occurs, and the server…
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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 looking at the Avg Disk Sec/Transfer it's showing my…
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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 particular application being examined:
The second…
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