PerformanceCounter taking 40-50 seconds to be created

05-26-2009, 11:30 AM

torpkevuk

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Location: Nebraska, USA

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PerformanceCounter taking 40-50 seconds to be created

Ok, need to ask because this is driving me nuts now.

I have a performance counter set up to pull % Processor Time on a remote machine.

Heres the code I use to pull it:

Code:

Private cpuCounter As PerformanceCounter = Nothing


Try
            cpuCounter = New PerformanceCounter("Processor", "% Processor Time", "_Total", strServer)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
        End Try

However, sometimes it can take 40-50 seconds for this one counter to process.. when its been created (the 'cpuCounter =' line), then it runs just fine, I can pull nextvalue without any problem.. but creating it takes forever.

This only happens the first time I run my program and it only happens with the first counter, and it doesn't ALWAYS happen.

Any idea how I can try and track down whats holding me up here? All the other counters are fine, its just the first one.. am I missing some log-in step or something?

Thanks

05-27-2009, 07:24 AM

torpkevuk

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Join Date: Oct 2003

Location: Nebraska, USA

Posts: 640

I think I have my problem.. my curse of it being in alphabetical order.. the first server I was hitting was actually a server in a remote location.. forgot that one was even in the list.. uch.

When I query a machine on the local lan it goes a lot quicker

Thanks anyway guys