possible to check how much memory a service is taking up?

doubleu · Post by **doubleu** » Sat May 24, 2003 4:33 pm

I'm a Windows server monitoring newb, and am curious if it's possible to probe for how much memory a particular service is using? If so, how do you do it with HostMonitor?

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Sat May 24, 2003 6:53 pm

I am afraid that is impossible

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Sun May 25, 2003 5:40 am

Not entirely impossible. You could use performance counters for this purpose (assuming they are working correctly).

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Sun May 25, 2003 11:45 am

Does Performance Counter work for services as well?

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:32 am

It works for processes. So as long as you know which proces(ses) belong to a service, you can measure it. Most services just start one process (of course not all of them......)

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dimmyr · Post by **dimmyr** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 9:19 am

How DO you monitor a processes memory usage. For instance - we have a stray DLLHOST process, that mpops up in multiple instances and leaks memory.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 2:30 pm

May be Marcus will correct me but I don't think its possible to check total memory usage for several instances of the same process.
Probably you can use "Process" test to monitor number of instances of the process? Or use "Performance Counter" test to monitor amount of memory used by all processes?

Regards
Alex

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:01 am

we have a stray DLLHOST process, that mpops up in multiple instances and leaks memory
This is a problem of your web application. If a web application is not correctly handling all resources it uses.

But when using performance monitor on w2k, you can use the instance number(#1, #2, etc) of the process. So it must be possible to use this. Your only problem is that you have to know in front how many versions of the dll are running.