![]() As such I am going to turn off everything monitored by this tool other than SQL Server I/O. The reader should notice that this is a SQL Server I/O performance blog. Process Monitor opens and shows all running processes: Other than that the tool is run from the. Procmon.exe will write your acceptance to the system registry. This will only appear the first time the application is executed. The first time Procmon.exe is executed it will prompt the user to accept its license terms. Run Process Monitor by executing the Procmon.exe application: Lets start our exercise by Downloading the ProcessMonitor.zip file from: Microsoft Sysinternals Disk and file utilities: Good read if you want to stop Sudoku puzzles for a while and really grow your brain power. ![]() By definitive guide I mean the book folks in Microsoft PSS turn to when they need to complete Kernel mode debugging. Note: Mark Russinovich is a Microsoft Technical Fellow who is a co-author of Windows Internals: - Let's just call this book the definitive guide to Windows. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell created the Sysinternals web site back in 1996 to highlight advanced system utilities and technical information. Process Monitor is created by the Windows Sysinternals team. Over the coming weeks I will cover both tools in detail. Process Monitor is extremely lightweight and lacks the full suite of diagnostic tools included with XPERF. I will relate Process Monitor to a surgical scope and XPERF to an intrusive scalpel. If you need to verify specific problems then you need a scalpel and a surgeon.Įnter the Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit (XPERF) and Process Monitor. An MRI shows you an approximation of what is going on inside the human body. If a tool only captures data every 5 seconds it is not going to be absolutely accurate in how it reports specific problems. Unfortunately Perfmon needs to sample data over time and by necessity performs data smoothing. ![]() Perfmon is a great tool for analyzing how busy a given system is. In previous posts I outlined performance counters that can be used to view windows I/O: ![]()
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