Processor Utilization

As Web servers have matured, performance has become increasingly important. Today, with the growth of Web applications for database publishing, content indexing, and collaboration, maximizing hardware and software performance has become a priority. This section focuses on processor aspects of performance and makes recommendations for upgrades, based on feedback from performance monitoring tests.

This section includes:

• About Processor Utilization: Conceptual information about performance issues.
• Throttling Processes: Setting limits on the total amount of CPU time a Web site can use.

This section does not include information on:

• Performance aspects of creating transactions and isolating applications; see Configuring Applications.
• Tracking Web site traffic; see Logging Site Activity.

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