Windows NT Performance Monitoring, Benchmarking and Tuning (New Rider's Professional Series)

By Mark T. Edmead

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562059424
• ISBN13: 9781562059422
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Performance Monitor or Performance Monitoring?

The book was well focused on Microsoft Performance Monitor (ie, how to configure PerfMon) and provided some good insight on how to read and determine problems with specific counters. Some trouble-shooting techniques were provided, however very weak in substance. The majority of this book was really focused on PerfMon and reading and understanding the counters, bottom line. The spelling was unusually high in errors, and a spelling checker would have done this book good. I am surprised it actually got published like this! At any rate, I still feel I got my money's worth and I feel more confident using PerfMon and understanding counter values and what sort of error you may be experiencing if you exceed the threshold of some of these values.

lots of useful tips

Very readable, lots of practical advice, and a truly fantastic number of typos. What ever happened to proofreading?

Great refrence, lots of practical "How-To's", a must have

A very concise and practical book. I was able to use some of the suggestions immediately. It is now one of my everyday "reference" books.

Must book for NT system administrators

I love this book! I can't believe I said this about a computer book. It does a wonderful job of explaining how to measure NT's utilization of CPU, Memory, I/O, and network resources. And more importantly how to make fix the problems. Thanks for doing such a great job.

A book as good as a major hardware upgrade

This book is clear, accurate and well-written, packed with the details you need to gather performance data, and has just enough background data on hardware and Windows NT so you can understand why the data is important and how it influences your system. You won't only see that your CPU is 100% utilized; you will understand why it is maxed out and what you can do about it. In addition, the data is presented in such a way that you don't have to read the whole book before you can start using it.I highly recommend this book. Use it carefully and it can boost your performance as much as a major hardware upgrade.Lance Jensen Technical Support Manager Executive Software International, Inc.