Hi,

i'm currently working on a way to determine current
database-connection-usage (Unpooled Connection, Pooled Connections,
....) and website monitoring (threadcount, ...) without using the
WindowsNT-Performance-Counters.

I want to use this for instrumentation purposes (so i can tell anywhere
in my .net code e.g. how many database connections are currently in use
by the aspnet_wp - process).

I want to keep the performance overhead as small as possible - so i
want to avoid using the perfmon infrastructure.

Any suggestions appreciated.

br

HPW

"hpw" <hpw (AT) hp-weidinger (DOT) at> wrote

Use the performance counters. You don't have to use perfmon (although I
can't understand why you wouldn't). You can query the counters in code.

David

Thanks for the answer,

i just wanted to avoid using an (As far as i know) Out-Of-Proc-Com-Call
to determine Runtime information about an application i want to insert
Instrumentation info to...

If there is any other way (like
System.Data.SQLClient.Pool.getCurrentPooledIdleCon nections() - or
something like that) i would use them.

Unfortunately i did not find such Methods for ADO.net and ASP.net.

Does anyone know, how much overhead a call to the Performance-Counters
costs?

br

Hans-Peter

David Browne wrote: