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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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 domain account that is in the administrators group…
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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 Processes tab is only a fraction of the total CPU. …
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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 Performance Monitor to capture the amount of…
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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 server i see hardly anything coming in on the…
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Getting RAM info from Performance Monitor
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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 Task Manager > Performance. (The Blue line that…
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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, etc.) I'd like to setup identical performance…
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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 per server, set to check and record data every 1…
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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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Scheduling performance counter to collect and stop data simultaneously on multiple server
How to schedule performance counter in multiple Windows Server 2008 R2 to start on Monday morning 8 AM and stop at 6 PM on Friday ?
for the following metrics: CPU usage, Disk usage, Memory, Network, Queue, Database processes
Because when I do it…
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Remote Performance Monitoring SQL Server
I've got a couple of servers running SQL Server 2005 Enterprise and I'd like to monitor them remotely using Perfmon (Windows' Performance Monitor).
On my machine, I have an instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer, and I noticed that there are a…
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Good Perfmon Counters for Initial Troubleshooting
I increasingly deal with users who complain there "computer is slow" or that "it takes forever to load" on the laptops we provide (fairly standard build of Windows 7 32-bit with Office 2010 and a few other enterprise apps for calendaring and such). …
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Can't Find Perfmon Results
On a Win7 box I've setup a User Defined collector set in perfmon. I clicked on it to start it, waited 30 seconds, then clicked to stop. My understanding was that I could go under the Reports folder and see an entry representing the stats the were…
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Perfmon takes up entire memory
Is it expected?
Windows 2008 R2 Storage Server SP1, 6GB physical RAM, 18 GB Paging file
Running 12 hours of Perfmon collection with low sample interval
After some time, Commit charge reaches the limit , windows screams and all sort of issues…
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How can I view more counters in the Windows Server 2008 perfmon UI?
On Windows Server 2008, if you set up perfmon counters, most of the UI is dedicated to the graph, and at the bottom of the screen you get a tiny scrollable area where you can only see one counter at a time. Does anyone know how to fix it so that…
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IIS/ASP.NET performance incident - Perfmon Current Annonymous Users going through roof but Requests/sec low
Setup: ASP.NET 4.0 website on IIS 6.0 on Win 2003 64 bit, 8xCPUs, 16GB memory, separate SQL 2005 DB server.
Had a serious slowdown today with any otherwise fairly well performing ASP.NET site. For a period of a couple of hours all page requests were…
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