Any adverse effects of increasing PerfLib Collect Timeouts?

[jwgoerlich]

On various Win2000 AS SP4 servers, I am seeing PerfLib Event ID 1015
errors. The message is "The timeout waiting for the performance data
collection function "" in the "" Library to finish has expired. There
may be a problem with this extensible counter or the service it is
collecting data from or the system may have been very busy when this
call was attempted." The counters are typically TermService, PerfOS,
PerfDisk, or Tcpip. All servers run near capacity, and so the timeouts
can be linked to server utilization.

I would like to increase the Collect Timeout value for the problem
counters. I have two questions in this regard. First, is there a
practical limit to how high these timeout values should be? Second,
will my servers experience any adverse effects from having extended
collect timeouts?

Thanks in advance,

J Wolfgang Goerlich

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: (e-mail address removed) (jwgoerlich)
Subject: Any adverse effects of increasing PerfLib Collect Timeouts?
Date: 17 May 2004 09:04:00 -0700

On various Win2000 AS SP4 servers, I am seeing PerfLib Event ID 1015
errors. The message is "The timeout waiting for the performance data
collection function "" in the "" Library to finish has expired. There
may be a problem with this extensible counter or the service it is
collecting data from or the system may have been very busy when this
call was attempted." The counters are typically TermService, PerfOS,
PerfDisk, or Tcpip. All servers run near capacity, and so the timeouts
can be linked to server utilization.

I would like to increase the Collect Timeout value for the problem
counters. I have two questions in this regard. First, is there a
practical limit to how high these timeout values should be? Second,
will my servers experience any adverse effects from having extended
collect timeouts?

Thanks in advance,

J Wolfgang Goerlich

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Consult Q300956 for information on how to rebuild performance counters
To disable a counter (which is often much easier to get rid of PerfLib
errors for counters that aren't used) use the exctrlst.exe utility.
You can find exctrlst.exe in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit

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[jwgoerlich]

Consult Q300956 for information on how to rebuild performance counters

Good information. The events are related to server utilization. I have
rebuilt the counters in the past and the problem continued. The
counters are used and cannot be disabled.

In your experience, is there a limit to how high I can set the collect
timeouts?

J Wolfgang Goerlich