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Windows NT Performance Monitoring, Benchmarking and Tuning (New Riders Professional Library) Paperback – November 10, 1998

by Mark Edmead (Author), Paul Hinsberg (Author)

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Windows NT Performance: Monitoring, Benchmarking and Tuning provides a one-stop source for sound technical information on doing everything necessary to fine tune your network. From monitoring to benchmarking, from analyzing performance numbers to isolating and solving resource bottlenecks, the authors provide a reliable blueprint for ensuring optimal Windows NT performance.

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A specialized book on the efficient function of Microsoft's network operating system, Windows NT Performance: Monitoring, Benchmarking, and Tuning examines how the OS functions and how to diagnose and remedy common problems that tax the system.

Very well organized, the book flows logically from an overview of specific systems to what can go wrong and how to fix it. It supplements troubleshooting diagnoses with brief case studies that present a problem, discuss it, and ultimately provide a solution, all in just a few paragraphs.

An exceptional feature of this book is that it explains the theories behind many of the issues affecting performance characteristics and attributes. A primary example elaborates on the OSI model and how it relates to Windows NT networking and general queuing theory, including the role played by CPU (all of which is accompanied by a readable analogy to lines at a cash register).

Practical advice crops up throughout the volume. For instance, if interrupts/sec are dominating the system (especially if the system is old or has recently been moved), the book recommends checking your adapter cards to make sure they haven't popped out of their slots.

Even given its superior content, Windows NT Performance leaves much to be desired in terms of style and editing. Redundancy takes the crown for glaring style problems, in which readers find sentences beginning with terms like "The microkernel" or "SMP Operations" within the same paragraph. The book also has its fair share of typos. This doesn't necessarily affect the understandability or readability of the text, it just looks bad. --John Keogh

Topics covered: Windows NT architecture, performance monitoring tools, logs, simulating system bottlenecks, setting performance objectives, network performance, network traffic issues, CPU performance, memory performance, paging, disk performance, network interface performance, practical tuning techniques, performance monitor counters.

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Windows NT Performance: Monitoring, Benchmarking and Tuning provides a one-stop source for sound technical information on doing everything necessary to fine tune your network. From monitoring to benchmarking, from analyzing performance numbers to isolating and solving resource bottlenecks, the authors provide a reliable blueprint for ensuring optimal Windows NT performance.

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Product Details

Series: New Riders Professional Library
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Pearson Education (November 10, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1562059424
ISBN-13: 978-1562059422
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,938,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #830 in Books > Computers & Technology > Business Technology > Windows Server
- #3127 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Windows > Windows Desktop
- #6524 in Books > Computers & Technology > Networking & Cloud Computing > Networks, Protocols & APIs

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Bychavrutaon March 16, 2001

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This book has very little information in it. It has taken about 25 pages of useful information and combined it with some basic NT admin knowledge, some fairly useless tests and test cases and repeated itself a lot (I think I've found 5 explanations of the page file which are the same) and stretched it all out into a book. Also, it doesn't explain some things very well.

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Performance Monitor or Performance Monitoring?

ByMark DiBiaseon March 15, 2002

Format: Paperback

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.

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Performance Monitor or Performance Monitoring?

ByMark DiBiaseon March 15, 2002

Format: Paperback

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.

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A book as good as a major hardware upgrade

ByA customeron February 16, 1999

Format: Paperback

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.

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Must book for NT system administrators

ByA customeron March 3, 1999

Format: Paperback

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.

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This book contains good reference on available tools

ByA customeron March 15, 1999

Format: Paperback

I liked and dis-liked this book. It provided a comprehensive description of availble monitoring and measurement tools for Windows NT. On the other hand, the many case studys were often too simple and left me feeling something was missing.

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

ByA customeron April 16, 1999

Format: Paperback

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.

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lots of useful tips

ByA customeron June 4, 1999

Format: Paperback

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

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