Windows 2000 Performance Guide

Mark Friedman, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

ISBN:1565924665, Edition: 1st, 2002-01

Price: $44.95

Table of Contents

Preface
Intended Audience
Organization of This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments

1. Perspectives on Performance Management
1.1 Windows 2000 Evolution
1.2 Tools of the Trade
1.3 Performance and Productivity
1.4 Performance Management
1.5 Problems of Scale
1.6 Performance Tools

2. Measurement Methodology
2.1 Performance Monitoring on Windows
2.2 Performance Monitoring API
2.3 Performance Data Logging
2.4 Performance Monitoring Overhead
2.5 A Performance Monitoring Starter Set

3. Processor Performance
3.1 Windows 2000 Design Goals
3.2 The Thread Execution Scheduler
3.3 Thread Scheduling Tuning

4. Optimizing Application Performance
4.1 Background
4.2 The Application Tuning Case Study
4.3 Intel Processor Hardware Performance

5. Multiprocessing
5.1 Multiprocessing Basics
5.2 Cache Coherence
5.3 Pentium Pro Hardware Counters
5.4 Optimization and SMP Configuration Tuning
5.5 Configuring Server Applications for Multiprocessing
5.6 Partitioning Multiprocessors

6. Memory Management and Paging
6.1 Virtual Memory
6.2 Page Replacement
6.3 Memory Capacity Planning

7. File Cache Performance and Tuning
7.1 File Cache Sizing
7.2 Cache Performance Counters
7.3 Universal Caching
7.4 How the Windows 2000 File Cache Works
7.5 Cache Tuning

8. Disk Subsystem Performance
8.1 The I/O Subsystem
8.2 Disk Architecture
8.3 I/O Buses
8.4 Disk Interfaces
8.5 System Monitor Counters
8.6 Workload Studies

9. Filesystem Performance
9.1 Storage Management
9.2 Filesystems
9.3 Defragmentation
9.4 System Monitor Counters
9.5 Comparing Filesystem Performance
9.6 Selecting a Filesystem

10. Disk Array Performance
10.1 Disk Striping
10.2 Enter RAID
10.3 RAID Disk Organizations
10.4 RAID and Windows 2000
10.5 Benchmark Testing
10.6 Selecting a RAID Configuration

11. Introduction to Networking Technology
11.1 Networking Basics
11.2 Bandwidth and Latency
11.3 Media Access Layer
11.4 Internet Protocol Layer
11.5 Host-to-Host Connections

12. Internet Information Server Performance
12.1 Web Server Architecture
12.2 Sources of Information
12.3 Web Server Benchmarks
12.4 Performance Management
12.5 Load Balancing and Server Clustering

13. Bibliography
13.1 Performance Management
13.2 Measurement Methodology
13.3 Processor Performance
13.4 Optimizing Application Performance
13.5 Multiprocessing
13.6 Memory Management and Paging
13.7 File Cache Performance and Tuning
13.8 Disk Subsystem Performance
13.9 Filesystem Performance
13.10 Disk Array Performance
13.11 Networking Technology
13.12 Internet Information Server Performance

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