Viewing and Creating Performance Charts
On a daily basis, your system generates a variety of performance data, such as your computer’s memory or processor use, or the amount of congestion on a device. As the system administrator, you can use the Reliability and Performance tool to create charts from the data that enable you to observe how a computer’s processor behaves over time. The types of performance data you monitor and record are called performance objects. Each performance object has a set of counters associated with it that provides numeric information. The Reliability and Performance tool charts the numeric data gathered from the counters and provides graphical tools to make it easier to analyze and track the performance of your computer. Performance charts include statistics about each counter you select, but unless you know how your system should perform, these statistics might not be very meaningful. For this reason, administrators create baseline charts—charts made when the computer or network is running at a normal level. When there are problems, the administrator can create another performance chart that can be compared to the baseline chart.
View Resource Performance Chart
Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
Timesaver:
You can display performance usage graphs in the Task Manager on the Performance tab. Press Ctl+Alt+Del, click Task Manager, and then click Resource Monitor.
Double-click the Administrative Tools icon in Classic view.
Double-click the Reliability and Performance Monitor icon.
In the left pane, click Reliability and Performance.
Click a bar (CPU, Disk, Network, or Memory) to display program specific information.
Click the bar again to hide the specific programs.
When you’re done, click the Close button.
View a Reliability Chart
Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click the Administrative Tools icon in Classic view.
Double-click the Reliability and Performance Monitor icon.
In the left pane, click the arrow next to Monitoring Tools, and then click Reliability Monitor.
Click the plus (+) sign or minus (-) sign to display program specific information.
Click the Close button.
View or Create a Performance Chart
Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click the Administrative Tools icon in Classic view.
Double-click the Reliability and Performance Monitor icon.
In the left pane, click the arrow next to Monitoring Tools, and then click Performance Monitor.
To add counts and create a chart, click the Add button on the System Monitor toolbar.
Click the counter you want, and then click Add. You can continue to add other counters.
When you’re done, click OK.
Click the Close button.
