I have been trying to get an understanding of what we shoud be monitoring on the server during the performance tests.

Windows performance monitor (run "perfmon") does the monitoring however there are hundred of potential counters.

I have found several articles on this that seem to be good an for the most part agree:

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/HealthCheck/index.htm

http://adminfoo.net/2007/04/windows-perfmon-top-ten-counters.html

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Key-Performance-Monitor-Counters.html

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/NHibernate_Perf2.asp

I have found this article to go with the best practices article previously menetioned.

I have implemented the default schema as a web.config setting (which is then programmatically set in hibernate.cs).

Richard

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=331500

 

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