Win32::PerfMon is unable to enum objects with multiple instances

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

I've been looking for some easy ways to enumerate all of the available performance counters on a Win32 platform programatically. Rather than trawl through the PerfMon counter GUI, or regress back into the millions of raw counters available via WMI, I was looking for a solution somewhere in between. The ActiveState version ...

Posted in Perl, Win2K3, Analysis, Tools, Tuning, Windows | No Comments »

Leopard, blue screens, 3 Mobile and a hot MBP!

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Good grief, I paid the price of tweaking my OS 10.4.x install after installing Leopard and dealing with the myriad of problems previous tweaking posed! The first problem was after a very long upgrade process (1+ hours) for Leopard, I was presented with a nice blue screen, a mouse pointer and ...

Posted in OSX, Hardware | 1 Comment »

Chasing symptoms, not cause

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Any job in which you need to 'fix' something requires you to correctly analyze the root cause. Treat just the symptoms and you'll find yourself on the never-get-fixed roundabout ... Performance tuning fits this profile neatly. In an array of available metrics, how do you avoid chasing the symptoms and never ...

Posted in Analysis, Testing | 2 Comments »