I commonly get questioned on what response should be given to the NumberOfProcessors question variable in the PAL tool, so I thought I might try to explain it a bit… PAL is designed to be a stand-alone tool where the analysis of a performance counter...

One of the top questions I get with the PAL tool is what data to collect. As many of you know, the PAL tool only analyze existing counter logs. It is up to you to create the counter log. To help with this problem, I created a PowerShell script called...

The Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool is an open source project at http://pal.codeplex.com that analyzes performance counter logs. It has thresholds for performance counters written by experts in their respective areas spanning nearly all of the...

I just finished writing an article on the public, wiki, PFE PerfGuide on the subject of the Page Frame Number database in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. This little known database is used by the operating system to keep track of the physical memory...