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Figure 12-32 Blank Performance Monitor

Objects and Counters

Two tool types define the usefulness of Performance Monitor: object and

counter. An object is a system component that is given a set of characteristics

and can be managed by the operating system as a single entity. A counter

tracks specific information about an object. The Processor object counter

%Processor Time, for example, tracks the percentage of elapsed time the

processor uses to execute a non-idle thread. Many counters can be associated

with an object.

Working with the Tools

Performance Monitor gathers real-time data on objects such as memory,

physical disk, processor, and network, and displays this data as a graph (line

graph), histogram (bar graph), or simple report. When you first open it,

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