Performance Tools wanted

[rick7423]

Can anyone suggest any good tools that can be used to monitor application performance? Specifically, I am looking for a thread, memory, CPU, and port monitor.

Any suggestions? I want to monitor an apps performance over time for stability and to see what metrics I can glean from the systems.

[Siddhartha]

Can anyone suggest any good tools that can be used to monitor application performance? Specifically, I am looking for a thread, memory, CPU, and port monitor.

Any suggestions? I want to monitor an apps performance over time for stability and to see what metrics I can glean from the systems.

There are two that come to my mind immediately:

• Perfmon: It's Free. (You will find it in your %WinDir%\System32 folder) Run "Perfmon" from "Run"
• Intel VTune: Advanced, and expensive. Both.

[rick7423]

I am already using perfomance monitor (perfmon), but wanted to find something a little more detailed. the more metrics i can get the better. I have been looking at sysinternal but wanted to get others impressions of what is used and best practices for using them.

[Siddhartha]

I am already using perfomance monitor (perfmon), but wanted to find something a little more detailed. the more metrics i can get the better. I have been looking at sysinternal but wanted to get others impressions of what is used and best practices for using them.

Then, I would recommend VTune.

[Andreas Masur]

In addition...

• How do I determine the speed of a particular function or operation?
• Which is faster <...> or [...]? / How can I optimize this?
• I cannot enable profiling in Visual Studio 6.0 -- why not?

[Siddhartha]

In addition...

• How do I determine the speed of a particular function or operation?
• Which is faster <...> or [...]? / How can I optimize this?
• I cannot enable profiling in Visual Studio 6.0 -- why not?

I think, Profiling is not what the OP needs.

(VS) Profiling tools count the function hit, and function time, and in doing so greatly affect the performance of the application itself.

In other words, time values generated by VS profiler (on a per-function basis) are useful only when compared as a ratio against the net application execution time - which due to this very tool can be 10 times or more slower than the genuine release-mode binaries.

[Andreas Masur]

I think, Profiling is not what the OP needs.

Well...this is what I consider the performance of an application...

Anyway...as I said...just as an addition...don't deny that VTune is basically a very nice tool as well...