Creating a Baseline
Grant Fritchey · Apress eBooks · 2014
In the previous three chapters, you learned a lot about various possible system bottlenecks caused by memory, the disk, and the CPU. I also introduced a number of Performance Monitor metrics for gathering data on these parts of the system. Within the descriptions of most of the counters, I referred to comparing your metric to a baseline. This chapter will cover how to gather your metrics so that you have that baseline for later comparison. I’ll go over how to configure an automated method gathering this information. A baseline is a fundamental part of understanding system behavior, so you should always have one available. This chapter covers the following topics: These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.