66 days ago by Jeffery Hicks

Windows Powershell makes it relatively easy to collect performance counter information via the Get-Counter cmdlet. Because I’m assuming you want to collect more than a few seconds of performance information, you’ll need to take advantage of PowerShell background jobs if … Continue reading →

83 days ago by Greg Varveris

So in a code-base I was working in yesterday, we use PInvoke to call out to the Performance Data Helper (PDH) API’s to collect performance information for machines without using Perfmon. One of those PInvoke calls looked like this: /* PDH_STATUS PdhExpandCounterPath( LPCTSTR szWildCardPath, LPTSTR m ...

116 days ago by SQL Master

Contention is the word that you need to concentrate in resolving the performance issue, page latches contention is common in multi-CPU systems due to the nature of w hen multiple threads concurrently attempt to acquire incompatible latches to the same in-memory structure. Going back to basiscs a lat ...

123 days ago by Snapjudge

By dynaTrace Using network analysis tools like HTTP Watch or Fiddler one can visualize the individual downloads in a timeline view there are different stages of perceived performance and perceived response time. The First Impression of speed is the time it takes to see something in the browsers wind ...

123 days ago by Snapjudge

By dynaTrace Memory leaks – together with inefficient object creation and incorrect garbage collector configuration – are the top memory problems We need a heap analyzer for analyzing heap content and a console to collect and visualize runtime performance metrics. A central concept in understanding ...

123 days ago by Snapjudge

From Dynatrace enrich monitoring data with additional context information like method parameters or bind variables of database statements, for example. the average execution time. This will lead us to statements or requests which are the slowest on average. Averages however might not be – and in man ...

123 days ago by Snapjudge

(by DynaTrace) End-user monitoring is also often referred to as the last mile in monitoring The first question can be answered by tracking resource load times. Here we want to measure the following metrics: • Time of First Byte – When was the first byte of the web page received • Time to First Visua ...

131 days ago by Robb

Hey everybody, Robb here with a tip on testing your Presentations. Testing Presentations is all fine and dandy when everything goes well, but in the case that you have a Presentation that is crashing or becoming sluggish after a certain period of time, here are a couple of tests that I do that usual ...

140 days ago by Tafarelo

Muitas vezes precisamos verificar o desempenho de um servidor, principalmente quando reclamações constantes de “lentidão” no sistema nos assolam. Normalmente, por trás de um problema de desempenho, diversos podem ser os causadores tanto no que diz respeito ao físico quanto … Continue lendo →

147 days ago by daniel

how do I view “perfmon” on a remote workstation (all workstations are in a workgroup, running XP)?