Monitoring and Tuning Your Server
Monitoring and Tuning Your Server |
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The Windows 2000 Server memory system is largely self-tuning. The Virtual Memory Manager and the Cache Manager adjust cache sizes, the working sets of processes, the paged and nonpaged memory pools, and paging files on disk to produce the most efficient use of memory. Similarly, IIS 5.0 regulates the size of the IIS Object Cache. Therefore, the primary purpose of monitoring memory in a Windows 2000 operating system–based server running IIS 5.0 is not to adjust the size of each memory component, but rather to make sure that the system as a whole has enough memory and is using it efficiently.
There are several major areas to look at when monitoring memory usage on a Web server. The next topic discusses them.