Problem with performance counters and the pagefile.

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Hi,

I am using the performance counter '\System\System Up Time' to retrieve the
current uptime of the system. However when I set the pagefile to zero-length
this performance counter disapears. It even seems if a complete other set of
performance counters is active after changing the pagefile to zero-length.
When restoring the pagefile, the problem persists.

We remove the pagefile because we duplicate our systems with 'ghost images',
this saves a lot of time and diskspace.

Could anyone help me or explain this problem?

Regards,
Peter.

 

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I found it already.

With the tool on
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/exctrlst-o.asp
the performance counter can be enabled again.

Reason for the disabling is that perfos.dll crashes when the pagefile is
removed. Windows then disables the perfos.dll and does not automatically
re-enable it.

More info on:
http://www.samurize.com/modules/ipboard/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=1407
http://www.samurize.com/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=1#q4

Regards,
Peter.