Performance Object

• Performance objects and counters: Management Services

The Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems obtains performance data from components in your computer as those components are utilized. That data is described as a performance object and is typically named for the component generating the data. For example, the Processor object is a collection of performance data about processors on your system.

Performance objects are built into the operating system, typically corresponding to the major hardware components such as memory, processors, and so on. Other programs might install their own performance objects. For example, services such as Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) or server programs such as Microsoft Exchange provide performance objects, and performance graphs and logs can monitor these objects.

Each performance object provides performance counters that represent data on specific aspects of a system or service. For example, the Pages/sec counter provided by the Memory object tracks the rate of memory paging.