Analyzing Processor

Monitor below counters to find if the processor is cause of low performance:

• Processor: %Processor Time often exceeds 85%.
• System: Processor Queue Length is often greater than 2.
• On multiprocessor systems, System: % Total Processor Time often exceeds 50%.

But these symptoms don’t always indicate a processor problem. And even when the processor is the problem, adding extra processors doesn’t always solve it.

Understanding the Processor Counters

It is important to understand the components of the primary processor activity counters, and to distinguish them from each other.