Performance counters several samples within a second

[jmecosta]

Hi,

trying to use performance counters to take several samples (10) per second. However im seeing .NextValue() takes about 100ms or in some cases (not sure because of degraded performance) even 0.5 seconds...

The documentation does suggest that 1sec should be the minimum to be used between calls of .NextValue().

Is there are good alternative to handle this scenario?

To reduce the accumulated affect of calling .NextValue() in several performace counters, im spawning one thread per counter (9 threads at the moment)

There are some operations that last 1, or 2 seconds... so i need to collect a few samples to be able to plot something...

This seems ok, but i cant guarentee the sampling to be done in regular intervals

thanks for any pointers

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