WINDOWS NT measurement

Mark Cohen Austrowiek
May 1998

The Windows NT operating system is becoming more and more part of many companies computers production environments. This makes it necessary for us to integrate these new systems in our capacity management studies in order to continue to have control and be competitive in the market.

Just giving a short list of things that need to be controlled in the Windows NT environment (Active server pages , Browser, Cache, FTP server, Fulcrum Server, Gopher service, HTTP service, ICMP, Image, Internet Information Services Global, IP, logical Disk, Memory, MSEXCHANGE, NBTConnection , Netbeui, Network Interface, Network Segment, NWlink IPX, NWlink netbios, Nwlink SPX, Objects, paging file, Pentium, Physical Disk, process, Ras port, Redirector Server, SNA Adapter, SQL server, System, Threads, UDP, WEB, WINS service, etc ) can make any capacity planner worried.

This paper concentrates first on the philosophy of the Windows NT performance data structures and then gives you some detailed information on the most useful performance data structures ‘Performance Objects’ and their fields ‘Counters’ in order to help you start finding bottlenecks and plan for capacity.