How To: Use Perfmon in Windows 7

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11/03/2009

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team.

This blog post is in continuation with How To: Identify Memory Leaks In An Unmanaged Application blog post. I will show how to setup perfmon to collect data for the selected counter in Windows 7.

Steps to configure perfmon

Click on start –> Click on Run
Enter Perfmon and press enter, click on Yes

It launches performance monitor
Click on Data Collector Sets
Select User Defined node and right click on it
Select New and Data collector Set

Enter a Name, select create manually and click on Next

Select create data logs, performance counter and click on Next

Click on Add

Select the required counters say processor Time, Add and click on OK

Click on Next
Browse to a folder, click on next

You can enter run as user details by clicking on change button
Select save and close and click on finish

The user data collector is created
Right click on the newly crated data set and click on start

Right click and select properties if you wish to change properties defined at any point of time
Once you are done with your application testing, right click and select stop

The log file is created and stored at the folder mentioned in the above steps
Open the log file and analyze the data for each counter

Publish the results

- Syed