The goal of the test team was not to compare PT application test data with limits of acceptable performance, but rather to establish a baseline with which to compare future performance tests. LitWare plans to use data from future tests to increase application performance.
Although the only application-performance metric being measured and published is transactions per second, server-specific counters gathered by Windows NT Performance Monitor are given here to support the validity of the test.
These sets of data are discussed in the following sections: