Questions tagged [performance-monitor]
Performance Monitor is a Windows utility that assists with the monitoring of the Windows operating system, local and remote.
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How to collect data about processes network activity?
Windows has Performance Monitor and Data Collector Sets feature. Apparently, it can log all system information.
I want to know, how much data, per process name, per remote IP address, was received ...
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WIndows Server 2016 - Disk and Network columns are greyed on Task Manager
I need to enable columns disk and network on Server 2016 Standard.
Screenshot Task Manager
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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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Why does process count in Performance Monitor disagree with that given by PowerShell?
When setting up a trace in Windows Performance Monitor I have sometimes added "\Objects\Processes" to the list of Performance Counters
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Analyzing the results seems always to show a higher ...
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Why is my ZFS pool spending 97% of its time reading the target and only about 3% writing, on a write operation?
This perplexes me and I don't know a way to drill down into what ZFS is actually doing.
I'm using a clean install of FreeNAS 11.1 with a fast ZFS pool (imported mirrors on fast 7200s) plus a ...
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Windows 8 version of iStat Menus or System Load Indicator
I just switched back to Windows 8 from Ubuntu and Mac environment. Since using both UNIX platforms, I relied much information about the system status (CPU, Memory, Network, Activity, etc.) provided by ...
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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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Windows 10 Performance monitor counter table too small, sometimes freezes
The Performance monitor on Windows 10 has the table listing the counters squished to one line height. See screenshot below. I have two counters, but the table shows one (to see the other I must scroll ...
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Why java consumes about 3GB of memory on the background?
I am just wondering to know what this process stands for and why it consumes that much of memory consistently in my Ubuntu-22.04LTS background?
Is it possible to get ride of it or reduce it's memory ...
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.NET 4 performance counters won't load
I am using a software based on WCF services and .NET 4.6. The configuration of the WCF services (throttling, etc.) is left at the user's IT department discretion.
In order to make the most informed ...
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Is LightHouse Performance Testing tool Compatible with Electron 1.8.1
I'm trying to do a robust performance test on our Angular Electron app. I heard LightHouse is excellent on Chrome but when I try to use it on Electron it fails with:
Browser.getVersion() not found
Is ...
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Win10 eliminating / reduce Post-Boot time for faster start into a program?
For a project I'm optimizing the time it takes for Windows 10 (Ent 64bit LTSB (1607)) to boot and start a specific program.
One of my main problems is what appears to be a longer post-boot pause, ...
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Real-time hard-drive space usage logging software?
I'm looking for a (Windows 7-compatible) tool that monitors and logs continuously how the space on my hard-drive is used.
I use Windows and my hard-drive is overflowing with automatically downloaded ...
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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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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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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 "NOCAT" in Event Trace Sessions in Windows 11 22h2 and how to prevent creation of it in every boot
logman query "NOCAT" -ets:
Name: NOCAT
Status: Running
Root Path: %systemdrive%\PerfLogs\Admin
Segment: Off
Schedules: On
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Perfmon issue, no application counters on Report.html
Can anyone help me on this issue I encountered on a Windows Server 2019 regarding reporting on Perfmon using performance counters?
I've tried to monitor the utilization of our IIS servers using ...
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Are there negative performance effects when collecting performance data in IIS?
I'm using Windows Server 2019 with IIS version 10.0.17763.1, where I count the incoming GET requests to my website using the Performance monitor. As sample interval I have chosen 15 seconds. Now I ...
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Understanding CPU Utilization in Perfmon
I'm running some tests on my machine with Intel i5 quad core processor. I see that the %Processor time _Total looks like average of all the other processor cores. Is it a sum of all the processor ...
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SQL Server's Maximum Workspace Memory decreases over time - only instance restart to increase it
This is an SQL Server 2016 CU2 instance with 15 GB configured as maximum RAM usage. MDOP is at 4. The databases in this instance are very sporadically queried by users and this is a read-only ...
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Shortcut for adding performance counters to view in Perfmon?
The green plus sign in PerfMon says ctrl + n should be the shortcut to access it, but that doesn't work.
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How to make nexus 10 as a monitor
I have an old nexus 10. It is slow, but fully functional. I have an old notebook which the monitor does not work. The nexus has a mini HDMI connector. Is it possible to make the nexus 10 as a monitor ...
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Performance Counter and Disk properties show different values
I am looking at free disk space in windows server,i have D: drive of 499 GB, when looking at performance monitor counters, free megabytes in logical disk counter shows free MB as 486,066 MB which is ...
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Which service is run by svchost
I am currently monitoring a system with perfmon and logging the following counters:
\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time (overall usage)
\Process(*)\% Processor Time (usage per process).
I can later ...
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Can perfMon be used to understand why a page become much slower?
In my department, we have two sites, say Site 1 and Site 2. Site 2 is in backup mode (so no traffic goes into there at all, but running).
Our website suddenly becomes slow this week.
As there was no ...
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Single service using thousands of threads
I have an windows application that is having performance and stability issues that our company has bought from a vendor.
I noticed the application was using 1,000 - 4,000 threads. Could this be ...
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Windows Performance Recorder: There are no trace profiles running
I am currently trying to analyze the startup and login performance on a Windows 7 64bit machine. I therefor installed ADK 8.1 and fired up the Windows Performance Recorder (wprui.exe).
As I am ...
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Can I use perfmon to measure my non-local (internet) bandwidth total from my machine?
I am looking for a quick way to measure my laptop's internet usage as a running total (rather than a point-in-time data plot). Performance monitor seems to offer a lot of options, but I am not sure ...
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Performance Monitor monitoring packets received on specific port?
We're using dozens of ports to receive hundreds of UDP connections per second (each connection is one packet) from gps devices. The programs that do the listening are poorly written and don't log any ...
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disk queue length confusion
I am a bit confused on the disk queue length value that I get in perfmon, I have 10 physical spindles running raid 5 and the current disk queue length hits 0.24. Should I start worrying once it goes ...
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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 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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