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MONITORING AND OPTIMIZATION

PERFORMANCE MONITOR AND NETWORK MONITOR

PERFORMANCE MONITOR

Windows NT Object Counters in Performance Monitor

OBJECT     PURPOSE

Cache     L2 cache performance

Logical disk     Mass storage performance, including network storage

Memory     Memory performance and usage

Objects     Process and tread counts

Paging file     Virtual memory usage

Physical disk     HD performance

Process     Performance of executing processes

Processor     Processor(s) performance

System     Windows NT performance

Thread     Individual thread performance

You will also see objects for each network service installed.

MONITORING FOR PROCESSOR BOTTLENECKS

MAJOR PROCESSOR RELATED COUNTERS TO WATCH:

Processor: %Processor Time - How busy the microprocessor is. Processor is a bottleneck if sustained >80%

Processor: Interrupts/sec - Rate of service requests from peripheral devices. If you have a high rate of interrupts/sec with no corresponding hardware functions then you may have a bad piece of hardware. Should be between 100 and 1000. Spikes to 2000 are ok.

System: Processor queue length - Number of threads waiting to be serviced. >2 then processor is a bottleneck. Queue length will always be zero unless you are also monitoring a thread specific counter (Context switches/sec is number of threads switched/sec by the processor and is good to use).

MONITORING THE DISK FOR BOTTLENECKS

IF THE DISK LIGHT IS ON ALL THE TIME, YOU NEED MORE RAM

More Ram will increase the size o...

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Submitted by: 123student
Date Submitted: 02-08-2006
Category: Social Issues
Words: 678
Pages: 2.71