How to add the user-defined Data Collector Set in PerfMon? Following are the steps to add the user-defined Data Collector Set in PerfMon: 1. Launch the PerfMon Tool on the Windows machine 2. Performance -> Data Collector Sets -> User Defined. Right-click on ‘User Defined’ 3. New -> Data Collector Set 4. A pop-up appears … Read more
PerfMon is an in-built performance monitoring tool for Windows System. It is a powerful, and often underutilized, tool. PerfMon provides a wide range of performance statistics and graphs for the Windows System. So, let’s start How to launch PerfMon? You will see: Important Graphs: Processor Graph: How to add Processor Graph and related counters? Memory … Read more
Following are the Performance Engineering Interview Questions Set #1. Q. 1 What is Software Performance Engineering? Ans: Performance Engineering is a systematic way of following the best practices and applying techniques in all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure that the final product is fast, responsive, scalable and optimized appropriately. Read … Read more
In the heap dump and thread dump analysis topics, we have seen how the snapshot of memory and thread at a particular time describes the whole picture and helps to determine the performance bottleneck. In a similar fashion, the Automatic Workload Repository (also caller AWR) report provides information about the database bottleneck. Dump vs AWR: The difference between the … Read more
There are several thread dump analysis tools are available to carry out the investigation on Threads and find out the root cause of the issue. Out of those, I found 2 thread dump analysers which are really good. Thread Dump Analysis Tools: To understand the thread dump analysis practically, we will use the ‘fastThread’ tool. We … Read more
A Garbage Collector is a Java program which tracked the referenced (live) objects and allowed them to keep in the heap memory whereas the memory of the unreferenced (dead) objects is reclaimed and reused for future object allocation. This method of reclaiming unused memory is known as Garbage Collection. In Garbage collection, neither the explicit deletion of … Read more