Monitoring and Tuning Your Server
Monitoring and Tuning Your Server |
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If the bandwidth on your server is not sufficient to support demand, you can solve the problem by increasing overall server bandwidth. You can also increase the effective bandwidth of existing communication links. Some suggestions on how to do so follow; many involve setting parameters that can only be modified by editing the Windows 2000 registry or the IIS 5.0 metabase.
Caution Do not use a registry editor to edit the registry directly unless you have no alternative. The registry editors bypass the standard safeguards provided by administrative tools. These safeguards prevent you from entering conflicting settings or settings that are likely to degrade performance or damage your system. Editing the registry directly can have serious, unexpected consequences that can prevent the system from starting and require that you reinstall Windows 2000. To configure or customize Windows 2000, use the programs in Control Panel or Microsoft Management Console (MMC) whenever possible.
It is frequently possible to reduce your use of bandwidth by optimizing Web application scripts or content. This option is well worth looking into as an interim solution, partly because it can also improve response time and hence the user experience; but if your client base is growing, you will eventually have to increase the bandwidth of your network connection anyway. For more information about scripted Web applications, see ASP Best Practices in this book.
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