PDF-Windows 2000 Performance Guide Help for Administrators and Application Developers

It is characteristic of most computer systems that they do not degrade gradually The painful reality is that performance is acceptable day after day until quite suddenly it all falls apart When this happens the administrator needs to be prepared to help the organization get through the crisis Computer applications are growing ever more intelligent and easy to use One of the byproducts of making applications easier to use is that they usually also require more resources to run And wherever productivity is a central factor in the decisions you make performance considerations loom large and continue to play an important role in system management Are you wondering for example if more expensive equipment would give better performance The answer is often yes but not always This book will show you why it is important to understand the performance characteristics of the hardware and of the workload and how they match up against each other Windows 2000 Performance Guide takes you through problem solving techniques like measurement methodology workload characterization benchmarking decomposition techniques and analytic queuing models This book covers Processor performance Application profiling and hardware considerations Multiprocessing Memory and paging File cache Disk performance Networking IIS The horror stories of failed development projects that did not meet cost and performance specifications reflect the fact that expectations about what computer technology can do far exceed the reality Even as hardware performance continues to improve managing performance will not get perceptibly easier This book will give you the tools and information you need to meet the challenges of performance management now and in the future Many of the popular computer books out there promise easy answers but this is the only book for those tricky situations that have no direct precedent Windows 2000 Performance Guide will give you the information and the conceptual framework to become your own Windows 2000 performance expert. 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The series editor is leading Windows NT/2000 expert Mark Minasi, who selects the topics and authors, and then develops and reviews each book to ensure that every member of the series meets your needs and helps you achieve your goals. quotThis book will be a supportive resource to help you know how to use the tools and features Microsoft shipped, but even better, Williams and Walla guide you through enough of the product internals to approach administration more strategically.quot From the Foreword by Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President, Windows Division, Microsoft Corporation Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows 2000 and Windows NT, is designed to accommodate the seamless exchange of information through Web services. It delivers the increased flexibility and power needed to administer networks as global entities, but its enhanced management tools and security features present as many challenges as opportunities. The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator\'s Guide will help readers negotiate these challenges and exploit the opportunities. Robert Williams and Mark Walla take readers from an understanding of basic concepts to the application of advanced functions. This comprehensive book begins with the fundamentals of Windows 2000 system administration and applies them to Windows Server 2003. The book then details the planning, deployment, administration, and management of a Windows Server system, and follows up with complete coverage of advanced tools and theory. This book concludes with a quick reference to the most important Windows .NET commands and utilities. 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