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Keith Sudbury
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Without being able to install or change anything it is going to be a little tricky 
If the batch process is long running - make sure they memory footprint isn't increasing over time. Memory leaks can cause a lot of issues. If you can monitor the processes when they are good and bad... you can use Resource Monitor to see what is going on at a process level. You should be able to see how much IO is happening on the temporary files (if any). Promon will obviously give a lot of information although not as friendly a presentation as ProTop. Performance Monitor will also give you information about disk IO, CPU and Memory in general. If they aren't trending that already... they need to fix that.
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If the batch process is long running - make sure they memory footprint isn't increasing over time. Memory leaks can cause a lot of issues. If you can monitor the processes when they are good and bad... you can use Resource Monitor to see what is going on at a process level. You should be able to see how much IO is happening on the temporary files (if any). Promon will obviously give a lot of information although not as friendly a presentation as ProTop. Performance Monitor will also give you information about disk IO, CPU and Memory in general. If they aren't trending that already... they need to fix that.Continue reading...