Re: Performance Newsgroup

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From: Dan Seur (click_at_casta.net)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:00:40 -0400

Roberto - indeed I didn't understand. I thought you were embarking on
some scholarly pursuit.

Is there a specific "irresponsiveness" problem you are trying to
diagnose? There may be a simple solution, if such a problem exists and
you describe it clearly. Gradual hard drive failure, for example, can
lock up a system for increasingly long times (eventually even hours) in
certain circumstances.

I'm unable to help with data reduction/analysis for various performance
monitor output streams.

Roberto Ruiz wrote:

> Hi again,
> Maybe I didnīt make my point clear enough. It's true that some tricks may do
> the job sometimes when trying to tweak performance, but I was actually
> talking about studying performance in the most orthodox way, that is: using
> Performance logs and counters to monitor the performance of a machine and
> extracting some useful information from those endless graphics and numbers.
> For example:
> - A computer is extremely irresponsive and when I take a look at the task
> manager I see that the processor is practically idle, there is plenty of
> free memory so there canīt or shouldnīt be any important paging activity so
> I say what the hell is going on? Maybe there is a lot of disk reading, maybe
> it's browsing the network looking for I donīt know what ....
> The numbers given by the performance monitor are dificult to interpret and
> seem contradictory at times, even when you know something about computer
> hardware and OS architecture ..... thatīs the kind of information Iīm
> looking for ....
> Thanx anyway,
> Robert
>
>
> "Dan Seur" <click@casta.net> wrote in message
> news:e2sGD$RnEHA.1992@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>>You might Google for W2k "performance tweaks" and similar search args.
>>You're right, it's a complex arena - but it is by no means unexplored.
>>The gaming community, and to some extent the server community, who try
>>for every ounce of horsepower, have batteries of tricks. As always, you
>>travel these roads at your own risk. It's often the case that optimal
>>performance, predictability, and stability intersect at different points
>>for different purposes.
>>
>>Vanilla W2k benefits from years of experience with fairly complex
>>algorithms across the spectrum of many manufacturers' and universities'
>>research and design teams, but in a given case a registry tweak or two
>>may improve certain characteristics. Mostly, it's math; down and dirty
>>queueing theory, statistics, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>Roberto Ruiz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>I'm trying to start digging seriously into performance issues, something
>>>that I believe is really a complex and quite unexplored arena and I came
>
> to
>
>>>the newsgroups looking for something like a performance newsgroup, but
>
> I've
>
>>>found there's nothing like this here. I'd appreciate any suggestions on
>>>resources about this subject (Newsgroups, Websites, etc)
>>>
>>>Thanx in advance,
>>>Robert
>>>
>>>Roberto Ruiz
>>>Brainbench MVP for Windows 2000 Desktop Admin
>>>http://www.brainbench.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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