132 days ago by Shane Corellian

If you have a critical database in your environment then you owe it to yourself to perform, at the very least, the basic monitoring of the health of the database. There are a few Performance Counters that I generally reference when I want to passively monitor the DB health. One of these counters is ...

154 days ago by c#shpadmin

Rightway Solution asked: Over the years, India has become very important to the world. It has emerged as the key location, offering world-class talent. The software designers and developers (read: Rightway solution’s designers and developers) are at par with the best in the world. This core competen ...

189 days ago by admin

Can performance monitors make no sense? Yes, see below… 09H 02H UNC_L3_MISS.WRITE Number of writeback requests that miss the L3. Should always be zero as writebacks from the cores will always result in L3 hits due to the inclusive property of the L3. Says Intel’s performance counter manual PMD22 101 ...

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189 days ago by admin

If one instance of lbm is running atop my contention detection runtime and another instance appears my contention detection layer should be able to percieve that contention. We test this via the following. While running alone in our steady state we observe approx. PMD1 71044 LAST_LEVEL_CACHE_MISSES ...

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193 days ago by Ron Barrett

One of the most frustrating and time consuming tasks for an IT professional is the time spent analyzing and trying to make sense of performance counter log files. With all the various server roles within an IT infrastructure and the thousands of counters associated with these, it is difficult to be ...

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631 days ago by Rasmus Glibstrup

As an instructor I always tell my students to make a performance baseline on their SQL Server so that they have something to compare against, when (not if) the users complain about performance. But my students and customers often ask – which counters should I monitor then? Well here is, to my experi ...

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