performance monitor counters

We have two Windows Servers running on the Itanium platform inside a
Microsoft cluster.

When we open performance monitor on either node, and go to add a counter or
object, the perfmon.exe process takes up about 50% of CPU and just starts
taking memory. I've seen it take over 2GB of memory in about 15 minutes. The
perfmon app just hangs and never allows us to add a counter.

Has anyone come across anything like this before? I'm at a loss for what to
do to try and track this one down. Thanks.

Anything in the event log?


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"jacksors" wrote:
> We have two Windows Servers running on the Itanium platform inside a
> Microsoft cluster.
>
> When we open performance monitor on either node, and go to add a counter
> or
> object, the perfmon.exe process takes up about 50% of CPU and just starts
> taking memory. I've seen it take over 2GB of memory in about 15 minutes.
> The
> perfmon app just hangs and never allows us to add a counter.
>
> Has anyone come across anything like this before? I'm at a loss for what
> to
> do to try and track this one down. Thanks.

Nothing at all unfortunately. I couldn't think of any other place to look for
logs that would indicate the reason why trying to add a counter would cause
the process to start chewing up resources.

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> Anything in the event log?
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
>
> "jacksors" wrote:
> > We have two Windows Servers running on the Itanium platform inside a
> > Microsoft cluster.
> >
> > When we open performance monitor on either node, and go to add a counter
> > or
> > object, the perfmon.exe process takes up about 50% of CPU and just starts
> > taking memory. I've seen it take over 2GB of memory in about 15 minutes.
> > The
> > perfmon app just hangs and never allows us to add a counter.
> >
> > Has anyone come across anything like this before? I'm at a loss for what
> > to
> > do to try and track this one down. Thanks.
>
>

Any particular counter object? You might try removing and re-adding.

Start|Run|exctrlst.exe



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"jacksors" wrote:
> Nothing at all unfortunately. I couldn't think of any other place to look
> for
> logs that would indicate the reason why trying to add a counter would
> cause
> the process to start chewing up resources.

Actually its not a particular counter or object. In the perfmon window, when
I click the + sign to add a counter, thats where it freezes and starts
sucking up resources. I can't even get the list of counters to pull up.

Iff I go and create a new counter log and click the button to add the first
counter, I get the same results.

What does that command you listed do? I will try running that and see hat
happens.

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> Any particular counter object? You might try removing and re-adding.
>
> Start|Run|exctrlst.exe
>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
>
> "jacksors" wrote:
> > Nothing at all unfortunately. I couldn't think of any other place to look
> > for
> > logs that would indicate the reason why trying to add a counter would
> > cause
> > the process to start chewing up resources.
>
>

It just loads the performance counter listing tool. Probably won't help
though.



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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"jacksors" wrote:
> Actually its not a particular counter or object. In the perfmon window,
> when
> I click the + sign to add a counter, thats where it freezes and starts
> sucking up resources. I can't even get the list of counters to pull up.
>
> Iff I go and create a new counter log and click the button to add the
> first
> counter, I get the same results.
>
> What does that command you listed do? I will try running that and see hat
> happens.