User load you place on your Windows 2000 server may be increased almost linearly from time to time, but that does not guarantee that the performance of server will reduce the current and estimated. Their approach somewhat academic (you can not accurately describe the performance without some calculations and statistics, as well as some theoretical discussion of operating system design), but there is no question that this book fits into a series of "blue" book system administration. Software engineers - particularly those involved in designing highly scalable applications for Windows 2000 - will get a lot of these titles, too. For starters, the authors go into depth on what the trail is available in Performance Monitor mean - valuable stuff for the system administrator a clear idea of what "Context switches / sec" and "Thread% User Time" (to quote one example) have to say about how efficiently available resources are used Wall. - David Topics covered: The subsystems of Microsoft Windows 2000, how they interact, and how they affect overall system performance under different applications. Performance Monitor is discussed in depth, as the performance characteristics of CPUs (single and parallel), memory and paging, disk access and caching, network access, and Internet services.