Outstanding! I have been in the Windows NT(X)/2000 performance monitoring game for some time and this book is a major advance on anything I've seen to date. If you need to understand how to measure Windows performance, then this book is for you.
The book gives a valuable insight into Windows resources and processes without savaging the reader with painful detail like the "Inside Windows..." series. For advanced administrators, Operations designers and Capacity managers, this is a technical bible.
The section on Processor performance is the best I've read with a much awaited explanation on Thread wait states and priority scheduling that, for once, I understood! Further vauable information on RAID performance is contained in later chapters which one would have difficulty locating in one volume.
A bit daunting for the un-initiated, so read the opening concepts section - this sets the book up well and provides an insight into what measurements can really mean.
Well done.
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