12.3 Performance Monitoring

Drag each definition on the left to its corresponding performance counter on the right. each used once.

Disk que length-number of read and writes requests that are waiting to be processed Processor utilization-amount of time the processor spends eperforming non-idle tasks Commit Charge-amountof memory that has been assigned to running process Disk times-amount of time that the disk subsystem is busy reading from and writing to disk Page file usage- Memory pages per second-number of hard faults that occur each second

You need to use Task Manager to analyze memory utilization on a Windows system. For example, you need to see how much system RAM is currently in use and how much is available. Click on the tab in Task Manager that you would use to do this.

Performance

Which tool can you use to gather and display statistics that help you monitor the operation of a windows system?

Performance Monitor

You recently installed several applications on a Windows system. After doing so, you notice that the system takes much longer to boot up. You suspect that the new applications include one or more helper applications that are automatically loaded when the system boots. To increase performance, you want to identify any such helper applications and disable them. Click on the tab in Task Manager that you would use to do this.

Startup

Your computer has a quad-core processor that supports multithreading installed. Given that the system is running windows, how can you verify whether multithreading has been enabled?

Task manager can display CPU utilization graphs for eight processors

Your computer seems to be running slow. In particular, you notice that the HDD activity light stays lit constantly when running multiple applications and switching between open windows, even though you aren't saving large files. What should you do?

Use task manager to monitor memory utilization use resource monitor to monitor memory utilization

Rachel who works at the receptionist desk thinks her windows 10 machine is running slowly today and calls you to see if you can speed it up.

performance processes

Jodies computer is acting unusually sluggish today, She calls you to see if you can find out what is going on and to improve her computers performance

right click> end task

Your job functions have recently changed, As a result you find that you are needing to work with more running programs on your windows 10 computer at a time. although you haven't seen these in the past you are now starting to receive error messages warning you of low virtual memory. however no additional ram can be added to your computer.

system