performancecounter

I'm trying to speed up the time taken to compile my application and one thing I'm investigating is to check what resources, if any, I can add to the build machine to speed things up. To this end, how do I figure out if I should invest in more CPU, more RAM, a better hard disk or whether the process is being bound by some other resource? I already saw this ( How to check if app is cpu-bound or memory-bound? ) and am looking for more tips and pointers. What I've tried so far: Time the process on the build machine vs. on my local machine. I found that the build machine takes twice the time as my

I would like to count the number of Instructions per Cycle executed on an ARM cortex-M4 (or cortex-M3) processor. What it's needed is: number of instructions (executed at runtime) of the code I want to profile and number of cycles that the code takes to execute. 1 - Number of Cycles Use the cycle counter is quite easy and straightforward. volatile unsigned int *DWT_CYCCNT ; volatile unsigned int *DWT_CONTROL ; volatile unsigned int *SCB_DEMCR ; void reset_timer(){ DWT_CYCCNT = (int *)0xE0001004; //address of the register DWT_CONTROL = (int *)0xE0001000; //address of the register SCB_DEMCR =

I want to check the memory leakage issue in my service. I have tried following set of perfmon counters. .NET CLR Memory\# Bytes in all Heaps .NET CLR Memory\Gen 2 Heap Size .NET CLR Memory\# GC handles .NET CLR Memory\# of Pinned Objects .NET CLR Memory\# total committed Bytes .NET CLR Memory\# total reserved Bytes .NET CLR Memory\Large Object Heap size I have referred above set from here Also referred following set: Memory/Available Bytes Memory/Committed Bytes Process/Private Bytes Process/Page File Bytes Process/Handle Count I have referred above set from here Is there any parameter

I have a custom performance counter category. Visual Studio Server Explorer refuses to delete it, claiming it is 'not registered or a system category'. Short of doing it programmatically, how can I delete the category? Is there a registry key I can delete? As far as I know, there is no way to safely delete them except programatically (they're intended for apps to create and remove during install) but it is trivial to do from a PowerShell command-line console. Just run this command: [Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterCategory]::Delete( "Your Category Name" ) HOWEVER: (EDIT) You can delete the

I have Windows XP which do not provide the Categories Processor or Memory, and I cannot bring it to show them (I'm not allowed to edit the registry nor to change System Files) Is there any way to get the actual CPU usage and Free Memory without using PerformanceCounter? I'm using .NET 3.5 and C# on Windows XP SP2 Would you be able to use native win32 API calls? If so then they would provide the information your after. See the following article: CodeProject: Calling API functions using C# To get the Processor usage without performance counter using WMI, Look at win32_Processor class. and if you