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Tracking down performance discrepancies with perfmon counters on supposedly identical hardware?
I have an app that has a markedly different performance profile on supposedly identical hardware. The app reads from a database, reads and writes to local disk, and does a lot of CPU bound ...
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Windows does not generate report.html for the performance reports
While I was writing up an answer for another question
I was running the windows System Diagnostics and System Performance perfmon reports. The data collector sets run fine, however when I go to view ...
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Customize Windows Performance Monitor
I'm wondering if that's possible to set a customized action counter that is not listed as one of the counters?
e.g. a batch script that measure a time for running my application, and then notify the ...
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Merging multiple log files to one single log file
I decided to monitor a remote computer (XP SP3) by gathering information with a performance monitor application.
After five days, I stopped monitoring and had 6 log files created by Perfmon.
My ...
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Processor utilization percentage for multiple, multicore processors
I have a Windows Server 2008 machine with two processors:
Intel Xeon CPU E5630 @2.53Ghz, 2533Mhz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical Processors
Intel Xeon CPU E5630 @2.53Ghz, 2533Mhz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical ...
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How can I reliably check how much resources do processes take up? (Is there a WinDirStat for RAM, CPU, etc?)
I've been using WindirStat for quite some time and am amazed by how efficiently and clearly it shows which content takes up space on my computer.
The rectangles are grouped by folder and extension. ...
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How to find out what's accessing a particular hard drive on Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I view what percentage of my hard drive bandwidth is currently being used?
My HDD on a dock just started making noises like it's being accessed but I don't see ...
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How to catch a slow process
Background:
I have a decent setup, one which you would not expect much latency:
It's a Q6600 Core 2 Quad with 4GB of DDR2 RAM Ge-force 9800 GT, and n-force 680i motherboard. Running 64-bit windows.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
