What limits exist on the amount of data one can publish to a custom Windows performance counter category?
I understand there is no hard limit on the number of counters or the number of instances, but rather there is a memory limit for the entire category. What is that limit?
Is there a limit on the total number or size of all performance counter categories? What else should be taken into account when dealing with a relatively large amount of data that needs to be published?
To put this into perspective, I need to publish around 50,000 32bit counter-instance-values. I could split these up into categories in various ways, depending on what limits exist.
I appreciate that performance counters may not be the best solution, but there are reasons for this madness.