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Debugging Visual Studio Load Test Rig Problems

On January 16, 2012 By Ben Day

I was setting up a Visual Studio Load Test rig for a customer recently and we ran into a handful of problems related to Performance Monitor Counters. Here are a couple of the problems and their solutions.

Problem #1: You run the load tests on the Load Test rig and you get an error that says “The performance counter category ‘Memory’ cannot be accessed on computer ‘{server name}’ (Access is denied); check that the category and computer names are correct.”

What’s Going Wrong?: There’s an “access is denied” error related to one or more performance counter(s) on one of servers under test. Since performance counters are collected from the Visual Studio Load Test Controller machine in the load test [...]

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