How To: Use Perfmon in Windows 7

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