Review this value in conjunction with Paging File\% Above 70 Available Bytes and Pages/sec to Paging File Usage percent understand paging activity on the computer. Find the process that is using a high Processor\% percentage of processor time. 85 percent Processor Time Upgrade to a faster processor or install an additional processor. A dramatic increase in this counter Depends on Processor value without a corresponding processor; for increase in system activity indicates a Processor\ current CPUs, hardware problem. Identify the network Interrupts/sec use a threshold adapter or disk controller card causing of 1500 interrupts the interrupts. May need to install an per second additional adapter or controller card. If the sum of Bytes Total/sec for all servers is roughly equal to the Server\Bytes maximum transfer rates of the Total/sec network, may need to segment the network. If the value reaches this threshold, consider tuning the InitWorkItems or Server\Work MaxWorkItems entries in the registry Server 3 Item Shortages (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Services \lanmanserver \Parameters If the value reaches this threshold, Server Work there might be a processor bottleneck. Queues\Queue 4 This is an instantaneous counter; Length observe its value over several intervals. This is an instantaneous counter; Multiple Queue 2 observe its value over several Processors Length intervals. The following table gives a description of the Task Manager items in the Process tab. If there is a corresponding performance counter, it is also listed. System Monitor Task Manager Description Process Object Process Tab Counters The base priority of the process, which determines the order in which its threads are scheduled for the processor. The base Base Priority priority is set by the process code, not the Priority Base operating system. The operating system sets and changes the dynamic priorities of threads in the process within the range of the base. The total processor time, in seconds, used by CPU Time None the process since it was started. The percentage of time the threads of the CPU Usage process used the processor since the last % Processor Time update.
Paging File Paging File\% Usage Above 70 percent Review this value in conjunction with Available Bytes and Pages/sec to understand paging activity on the computer. Processor Processor\% Processor Time 85 percent Find the process that is using a high percentage of processor time. Upgrade to a faster processor or install an additional processor. Processor\ Interrupts/sec Depends on processor; for current CPUs, use a threshold of 1500 interrupts per second A dramatic increase in this counter value without a corresponding increase in system activity indicates a hardware problem. Identify the network adapter or disk controller card causing the interrupts. May need to install an additional adapter or controller card. Server Server\Bytes Total/sec If the sum of Bytes Total/sec for all servers is roughly equal to the maximum transfer rates of the network, may need to segment the network. Server\Work Item Shortages 3 If the value reaches this threshold, consider tuning the InitWorkItems or MaxWorkItems entries in the registry (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Services \lanmanserver \Parameters Server Work Queues\Queue Length 4 If the value reaches this threshold, there might be a processor bottleneck. This is an instantaneous counter; observe its value over several intervals. Multiple Processors Queue Length 2 This is an instantaneous counter; observe its value over several intervals. The following table gives a description of the Task Manager items in the Process tab. If there is a corresponding performance counter, it is also listed. Task Manager Process Tab Description System Monitor Process Object Counters Base Priority The base priority of the process, which determines the order in which its threads are scheduled for the processor. The base priority is set by the process code, not the operating system. The operating system sets and changes the dynamic priorities of threads in the process within the range of the base. Priority Base CPU Time The total processor time, in seconds, used by the process since it was started. None CPU Usage The percentage of time the threads of the process used the processor since the last update. % Processor Time