Monitoring Pagefile usage through Perfmon :-

Monitoring Pagefile usage through Perfmon :-

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1.Click Start and go to Run and type in  “perfmon”

2.In the Performance monitor window click the + sign next to Performance Logs and Alerts

3.On the Counter Logs right click and go to New Log Settings

4.Give the New Log Settings a name of your choice

5.Then click on the Add counters tab.

6. Type in the the server name that we want to monitor ( Example: in the format: \\Servername)

7.Under the performance object tab select Paging File and check the box’s All counters and All instances

8.Then click on the Add button and then go the Log Files tab and select the type of log you want.

9.Then click on Configure and specify the location where you want to or leave it at default

10.Set the limit of the logs . This depends on the duration you want to monitor . You need to keep it at 100 Mb atleast to capture a good number of samples.

11.Then click OK and click on the Schedule tab. Here select the option Manually(using the shortcut menu)

12.Then go to General tab and in the Run As box provide the administrator credentials and set the password.

13.Set the interval as per the time frame you wish to monitor the server. For a good analysis it is recommended that we have atleast 100 samples.

13.Then click on Apply and in the main Performance monitor window you would see the log with the name you provided earlier appear there.

14.Right click on that log and start it and continue to monitor the server