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M R - 15 Oct 2007 12:01 GMT

Is it possible for two threads or applications running simultaneously to
update the same performance counters?
thanks
m

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Alberto Poblacion - 15 Oct 2007 12:37 GMT

> Is it possible for two threads or applications running simultaneously to
> update the same performance counters?

From the documentation for System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter:

"Thread Safety: This type is safe for multithreaded operations."

So yes, you should be safe updating the same performance counter from
several threads using the PerformanceCounter class.

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