The Windows agent gathers data by using Windows performance counters. When the Monitoring Station polls the up.time agent, the agent requests the required data from the performance counters, parses the appropriate information and returns the requested information to the Monitoring Station.
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Since the up.time agent uses the performance counters to collect statistics, the memory consumed by the Windows counters is associated with the up.time agent binary. However, the memory is actually being consumed by the Windows operating system, which maintains the built-in performance counters.
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