Windows performance analysis field guide

Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are designed to be the best performing operating systems to date, but even the best systems can be overwhelmed with load and/or plagued with poorly performing code. **__Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide__** gives you a practical field guide approach to performance monitoring and analysis from experts who do this work every day. Think of this book as your own guide to "What would Microsoft support do?" when you have a Windows performance issue. Author Clint Huffman, a Microsoft veteran of over fifteen years, shows you how to identify and alleviate problems with the computer resources of disk, memory, processor, and network. You will learn to use performance counters as the initial indicators, then use various tools to "dig in" to the problem, as well as how to capture and analyze boot performance problems. This field guide gives you the tools and answers you need to improve Microsoft Windows performance, including: * Save money on optimizing Windows performance with deep technical troubleshooting that tells you "What would Microsoft do to solve this?" * Includes performance counter templates so you can collect the right data the first time. * Learn how to solve performance problems using free tools from Microsoft such as the Windows Sysinternals tools and more. * In a rush? Chapter 1 Start Here gets you on the quick path to solving the problem. * Also covers earlier versions such as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are designed to be the best performing operating systems to date, but even the best systems can be overwhelmed with load and/or plagued with poorly performing code. Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide gives you a practical field guide approach to performance monitoring and analysis from experts who do this work every day. Think of this book as your own guide to "What would Microsoft support do?" when you have a Windows performance issue.

Author Clint Huffman, a Microsoft veteran of over fifteen years, shows you how to identify and alleviate problems with the computer resources of disk, memory, processor, and network. You will learn to use performance counters as the initial indicators, then use various tools to "dig in" to the problem, as well as how to capture and analyze boot performance problems.

This field guide gives you the tools and answers you need to improve Microsoft Windows performance, including:

• Save money on optimizing Windows performance with deep technical troubleshooting that tells you "What would Microsoft do to solve this?"
• Includes performance counter templates so you can collect the right data the first time.
• Learn how to solve performance problems using free tools from Microsoft such as the Windows Sysinternals tools and more.
• In a rush? Chapter 1 Start Here gets you on the quick path to solving the problem.
• Also covers earlier versions such as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Content: Front Matter, Pages i-ii Copyright, Page iv Dedication, Page v Acknowledgments, Page vii Biography, Page ix Foreword, Page xxiii Introduction, Page xxv Chapter 1 - Start here, Pages 1-10 Chapter 2 - Performance monitor, Pages 11-56 Chapter 3 - Storage, Pages 57-91 Chapter 4 - Process memory, Pages 93-127 Chapter 5 - Kernel memory, Pages 129-154 Chapter 6 - System committed memory, Pages 155-179 Chapter 7 - Page files, Pages 181-197 Chapter 8 - Physical memory, Pages 199-235 Chapter 9 - Network, Pages 237-244 Chapter 10 - Processor, Pages 245-262 Chapter 11 - Boot performance, Pages 263-282 Chapter 12 - Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool, Pages 283-315 Appendix A - Tools, Pages 317-329 Appendix B - Collecting Process Memory Dumps, Pages 331-334 Appendix C - Debug symbols, Pages 335-339 Index, Pages 341-349