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Configure performance counters in Windows NT

5 February 2001 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback Off
Performance counters are enabled by default to allow applications such as Performance Logs and Alerts to subscribe to these counters and measure performance. One can disable these performance counters to free resources.

There is a tool in the Win2k resource kit called Exctrlst.exe, which makes it easy to disable performance counters for installed services:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System \CurrentControlSet \Services \Service Name \Performance]
Disable Performance Counters = 1

More Info MS KB Q179456
More Info MS KB Q248993
More Info MS KB Q266416

There is a PhysicalDisk object, which allows monitoring of physical disks and logical drives. Windows 2000 monitors the physical disks by default, and it can be turned off by running this command and perform a reboot:

DISKPERF -N

To turn it on again run this command:

DISKPERF -YD

Note Windows XP only activates monitoring of the physical disks and logical drives on demand.

More Info MS KB Q253251
More Info MS KB Q296187

There is an I/O counter, which monitors the I/O for each process (Can be seen in the Task Manager with the columns I/O Writes, I/O Other, etc.). If this monitoring information is not important then one can disable it with this DWORD registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Session Manager \I/O System]
CountOperations = 0 (Default = Key does not exist)

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Comment by Per Fisker - 28 May 2004 @ 11:00 Reply

!!! be aware that even if this tweak turns out fine. Setup of programs like Visual studio 6 will fail to install due to performance measurement during setup.

Programs will exit showing the exception:

<process has already exited> has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.

Reenable the performance counters with the tool and reboot, relax and reload.. and everything will work fine again. More Info MS KB Q192731

brgds Per Fisker

Comment by snakefoot - 28 May 2004 @ 11:49 Reply

Per Fisker
!!! be aware that even if this tweak turns out fine. Setup of programs like Visual studio 6 will fail to install due to performance measurement during setup.

Thanks for the heads up, I don’t think I will update the tweak with this precaution, as the error is actually caused by a bug in the Visual Studio 6.0 installer.

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