Performance Monitor on Windows Server 2003

Question

Performance Monitor on Windows Server 2003

Manie Verster

SSCertifiable

Points: 7152
More actions
November 12, 2008 at 6:39 am

#92823

Hi there,
What is the effect of the performance monitor on a server? What actually happens while it is running? Does it have an effect on the performance of the server? What actually happens in the back ground while it is working? Can anyone help me please?:w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t:
:-PManie Verster
Developer
Johannesburg
South Africa
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. - Holy Bible
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Mckinley Dirkson (Well, I am trying. - Manie Verster)

Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login to reply

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736150 More actions · Answer 1

There is some overhead to measuring the counters and logging them. If you have the graphical display up, this uses overhead as well.

you can use Task Manager to get an idea of CPU hit for this tool.

laker_42 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4785 More actions · Answer 2

You can also eat up a lot of disk space with the log file depending on how many counters you are tracking & how long you have the perfmon running. We have had this happen a couple of times on different servers. HOw did the c drive all of a sudden have less than 1gb available? Oh yeah, forgot about the log file....

HTH,

John

Manie Verster SSCertifiable Points: 7152 More actions · Answer 3

Steve Jones - Editor (11/12/2008)
There is some overhead to measuring the counters and logging them. If you have the graphical display up, this uses overhead as well.
you can use Task Manager to get an idea of CPU hit for this tool.

You can also eat up a lot of disk space with the log file depending on how many counters you are tracking & how long you have the perfmon running. We have had this happen a couple of times on different servers. HOw did the c drive all of a sudden have less than 1gb available? Oh yeah, forgot about the log file....
HTH,
John

Thanks for the answers. I will definitely cool it with the perfmon in future. The task manager sounds like a good idea and I had to anyway always go back to it if the processor etc. go out of bounds to see what processes is running.

:-PManie Verster
Developer
Johannesburg
South Africa

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. - Holy Bible
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Mckinley Dirkson (Well, I am trying. - Manie Verster)