Page file profiler

Question

Hello,

I was wondering what is the best way to diagnose a performance problem in the pagefile, I have a .NET application that allocates and deallocates a lot of memory constantly, now checking my app on two machines which are rather the same hardware wise I found that in one computer my program runs a lot faster, I am trying to figure out what the reason for that is, and one of the things I wanted to check is if th problem is in the paging file which is not set correctly, and I wondered what is the best way to check it.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Gil

Answer 1

Hi Gil,

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Answer 2

Hi,

Here are some suggestions, hope could make some help:

1. Make sure the hardware settings and OS settings, and work load of two machines are the similar.

2. You could use the Performance Profiling tool in VS, to do the analysis and make the comparsion on two machines.

Regards

Answer 3

Hello,

Follow the threads below. It may help you.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file_performance_monitoring.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647791.aspx

Answer 4

Hi Gil, 

You can chose Ants profiler

http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/

which is with 14 days free trail, 

also look into AlertGrid plugin. 

and

Here is the nice article on PerfMonitor http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/query/aa266946

As Kan Ta mentioned, make sure most of the significant settings in both computers are same.

I hope this helps you...

 

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