Performance Monitor is a Windows utility that assists with the monitoring of the Windows operating system, local and remote. It is useful for creating a baseline, accessing resources during a workload, troubleshooting and alerting users of resource contention.
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Tracking I/O Operations
On a Windows PC (specifically Windows 7, in this case), is there a method or tool that can be used to track / monitor the I/O operations being performed on the machine? Perhaps something similar to ...
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Running perfmon /report yields Access Denied. Error when run as admin
I opened an Administrator command prompt window today to run the Resources and Performance Monitor via the perfmon /report command and after a few seconds of scanning performance, it presents me with ...
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Samsung SyncMaster 2443BWX LCD flickers, flashes, fades out
I have a Samsung SyncMaster 2443BWX LCD monitor hooked up to my Dell Latitude E6410 laptop through the dock. The monitor sometimes would flicker, flash, fade out. It happens very randomly. Sometime ...
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Find out what application is loading the hard drive
I usually have several application running simultaneously on the system. The biggest memory-wise are MS Visual Studio and a Chrome with a bunch of tabs.
Something is always keeping my hard drive ...
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'No Such Interface Supported' error when trying to connect to a remote PC in the Performance Monitor
I'm trying to get the remote performance monitoring running. I do following.
Start up 'Performance Monitor'
Right click on 'Performance on the top and select 'Connect to another computer'
There I ...
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Is there a way to create a dump file of what the Windows Resource Monitor records every second?
Or basically, archive all activity of all tasks across a span of 1 hour?
What about all activity of a particular task?
And is there also a way to create a similar dump file for activity recorded on ...
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In the Resource Monitor of Windows 7, what does the “disk queue length” really mean?
In the Resource Monitor of Windows 7, what does the "disk queue length" really mean?
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In addition, what does the green area and blue lines stand for, as well as the response time ...
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Command line way to get total gdi handles (or gdi handles free)
I'm looking for a tool to track GDI usage so I can get alerts when it gets close to the max. This is on Windows XP SP3.
As background, here are some related pages/apps that don't quite fit the bill:
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Can I find out broadly what my PC is doing with all those GHz? [closed]
Many PCs are dual or multi-core and have CPUs faster than 1GHz. That is a lot of instructions per second.
So when a PC decides to stop for even a few seconds, or does that thing where it will slowly ...
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How to find the process(es) which are hogging the machine
Scenario: All of a sudden, my computer feels sluggish. Mouse moves but windows take ages to open, etc. uptime says the load is 7.69 and raising.
Question: What is the fastest way to find out which ...
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Performance Monitor most useful counters [closed]
Windows PerfMon has many counters. A selection is suggested on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782186(WS.10).aspx but that's still a lot.
Which counters would you suggest as being the ...
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Aggregating nmon reports - AIX
Is there a tool to aggregate nmon reports of the same server over a period of days/hours and get a summary of (min,max,avg) of CPU memory etc.
Currently we have each server generating nmon data every ...
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Unix Performance testing - training content [closed]
My company is involved with performing performance testing and now they want to perform couple of training related with executing those tests on the servers based on Unix systems.
I have to provide ...
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Is there a way to check which proccess reads/writes to HDD right now?
MY HDD is reading something, but I have no idea what. Is there an app I can use to monitor proccesse whose read/write to HDD and where do they read/write?
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Performance Monitor by Process Id?
when you have serveral processes with the same name how do you differenciate between them in Performance Monintor.
It uses Name,Name#1, Name#2, Name#3 etc to identify the instances.
Is there any ...
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How to have Windows Performance Monitor User Defined sets start at system startup
I know you can set a timing schedule; but I'd really prefer to have them start once the computer starts. How do I do this?
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Perfmon quick rundown
I've known quite along while about performance monitor on Windows. I have decided now to create a scheduled performance monitoring of my entire system so I can find bottlenecks for future ...
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Windows server performance monitoring tool with email
We have an SQL server 2005 on Windows Server 2008. SQL server performance is not consistent through out the day. For example, a procedure that takes less than 5 seconds usually, takes around 30 to 45 ...
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Why does my guest virtual machine keep freezing?
Background:
In the past when my guest VM froze, I looked at windows task manager and saw very little ram. This led me to conclude "the host put the VM out of physical memory and into virtual memory ...
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Powerful monitoring applications for Windows
I have been using the Windows 7 Resource Monitor lately which has proven very powerful.
One can see what disk latency any process produces and effectively disable it if not required. For example, I ...
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How do you monitor I/O on individual devices in windows?
Can anyone tell me if there's a handy little utility out there that will monitor and display the I/O charts for individual drives on windows?
On linux Gkrellm is great for this.
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Frequency Scaling Monitor for Windows
What program is there to monitor the current CPU frequency (not the nominal CPU speed) on a Windows 7 system, similar to the Frequency Scaling Monitor applet in GNOME?
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Measure system performance across a group of laptops
I'm working with members of our IT staff to help upgrade a lot of our laptops for web developers. We all do the same type of work but have slightly different laptops. Most of us have Lenovo T61-series ...
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Where has logging to a file in Performance Monitor gone in Windows 7?
I am running perfmon in Windows 7 embedded and I can't find how you log the counter values to a file like you can in XP.
I thought it might be a limitation of Embedded 7 but I have the full version ...
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% processor time in Performance Monitor explanation
I am having trouble interpreting what I see in Performance Monitor.
I have two counters in my performance monitor.
\\MyComputer\Process(MyApp)\%Processor Time
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Connecting jconsole using SOCKS to Amazon EC2 [migrated]
I'm trying to use jconsole to view stats on an EC2 instance by using a socks proxy created by SSH. I've tried the various scripts mentioned in the links below but to no avail:
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How to monitor GPU load on Windows 7?
Performance monitor can bring CPU, Mem, HD and Network usage. Where is the GPU load monitor?
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Samurize perfmon meter will not display network interface counters
For many years I have used Samurize to display this little gem at the top of my display:
Recently I noticed that the meters for network upload and download were not working, so I went into my ...
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What is Performance Monitor telling me when my page faults / second are high?
I have a Windows 7 64-bit computer that is having performance issues. After some investigation, I have discovered that the page faults / second on it - as reported by Performance Monitor - are really ...
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What permissions are necessary to view remote Performance Counter data?
In Win2k3, I open Performance Monitor, and click "Add" to add a new counter. Instead of the local machine name, I type \\REMOTENAME and I get a message that says:
Unable to connect to machine
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The equivalent of iSTAT MENUS (system monitoring tool on menu) with Mac to PC?
Mac has a tool named iSTAT MENUS as is shown below.
It's pretty useful in that it shows all the computer status (memory usage/CPU usage/network) real time on top of the menu.
Does Windows have ...
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How do I find out which processes are causing the most disk activity?
I am hoping to find a way to do more performance monitoring--specifically, I hope that monitoring disk activity on a per-process basis will help me decide which programs are causing the most trouble ...
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How can I figure out what process is constantly accessing my hard drive in Windows XP?
I am running a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 with a very minimal set of applications installed, but even so, my computer often bogs down to a crawl while it is furiously accessing the hard drive, ...
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Can anybody recommend a Windows system monitoring tool similar to iPulse for the Mac?
Occasionally, my PC grinds to a halt, and by the time I get any monitoring tools open (don't forget my PC is slow at this point), performance has picked up a bit.
A friend recently told me he uses ...
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Create a Link to Resource Monitor
I'm running windows 7 and I want to create a link to the resource monitor that I can place anywhere. But all I've been able to do was pin it to the taskbar and not the start menu. Is there a command ...
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Windows 7 style perfomance monitor for windows xp
Is there a free downloadable utility that will show me memory, disc, processor and network usage on Windows XP as neatly and intuitively as the Windows 7 Perfmon?
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Windows Performance Monitor: where is it?
Where is the Performance Monitor in Windows XP? How can it be started using the Windows menus?
I can start it from the Run dialog:
perfmon.exe
But I am sure there is GUI way to start it.
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Finding Firefox resource hogs that freeze or slow it down [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Determine which Firefox Add-ons are Using the Most Memory
I know I have many extensions (50+). Too many, perhaps (case in point). However, I am willing to pay for ...
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Basic “debugging” of performance issues using the Vista Performance Monitor?
My laptop hard drive is being hit hard when I boot up for a period of several minutes. I figured that using the Vista Performance Monitor was the right tool, but I'm not sure of what metrics to use ...
