Implementing Perf Counters

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I have an application in C#, i want to implement perfcounters in this application so that i can track down the performance parameters and use them to make my application have better performance as of now the application has performance issues.
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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '10 at 15:35

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Performance counters only tell you that your program is slow. They don't tell you why your program is slow. Use a profiler.

answered Sep 13 '10 at 15:35

Hans Passant

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++ You're right, although the words "slow" and "profiler" give me an itch. I've never seen code that was slow. I have seen code that was extremely unnecessary. And lots of things call themselves profilers, but only some are actually very effective. – Mike Dunlavey Sep 13 '10 at 19:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '10 at 15:24

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this is great tutorial: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/perfcounter.aspx

answered Sep 13 '10 at 15:24

Andrey

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 13 '10 at 18:27

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Check out the StopWatch class. Samples here.

answered Sep 13 '10 at 18:27

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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To paraphrase @Hans, there's a world of difference between measuring performance problems and finding them, in spite of what is popularly said. Here's discussion of all that, and directions telling how to do it.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Sep 13 '10 at 19:14

Mike Dunlavey

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Implementing Perf Counters

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