The results would be the same. Best practice, however, is to run perfmon on a different machine and pull counters from the server you are interested in remotely (When you click on the "plus" to add a counter you can select what server to pull counters from). The GUI and/or logging parts of perfmon add significant load to the server whereas pulling of counters is cheap. tim _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Beckett Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:59 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Perfmon If you run perfmon from a terminal server session, are you getting an accurate read from physical disk and CPU or does it have to be run from the console?