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Windows 2000 Performance Guide Review by J. S. Hardman
Very good, Broad coverage of performance matters
I bought this book whilst doing performance analysis of an existing data distribution server. On the whole I am very impressed by this book - it covers a very broad range of performance matters (I won't bother listng them - much of the book can be previewed on the publisher's web-site). From a developer's point of view it is a little light on some areas, but these are mainly areas that an administrator doing tuning of an existing system would often not be looking at. For an administrator tuning existing systems it is very good indeed and certainly reminded me to add a couple more bits to my report. It isn't really aimed at developers designing new systems, but I would certainly recommend it to developers who are concerned with performance.
A couple of things that I would have liked to have seen in the book are:
(1) More detailed descriptions of each metric in PerfMon, together with what constitutes a good value and what doesn't.
(2) Details about socket options - how to choose values and what the impact of changing them is.
All in all, very good.