Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 2843

Monitoring Allocated Services
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Server Operating System Administration Guide
Maximum Service Processes. How many task handlers the server can
allocate to service client requests. As the number of client requests
increases, the server creates more service processes. When no more
service processes can be allocated, server performance is adversely
affected.
Monitor the current number of service processes to ensure that it does not
reach this value.
Current Service Processes. How many task handlers are currently being
used to service client requests.
Use this number to determine whether the server has enough free task
handlers to service client requests. If the number of current service
processes reaches the maximum, the value of the Maximum Service
Processes (Communications category) parameter must be increased.
Current Connections. Number of active connections, whether licensed
or unlicensed, authenticated or Not-Logged-In.
Open Files. Number of files currently being accessed by the server and
by other clients. Certain files are always open, such as the hidden files that
support eDirectory.
There are limits to resources in every computing environment. NetWare
allocates resources according to need and availability. When a request is
received, the operating system doesn't immediately allocate new resources. It
waits a specified amount of time to see if existing resources become available
to service the demand.
Dynamically allocated services are controlled by the interaction of three types
of settable parameters. If you understand how they work together, you can
interpret the statistics that you monitor and know how to configure the
system's response to demand.
Maximum limits control the amount of server resources the operating
system can allocate for a particular service.
Minimum limits allow the operating system to allocate a minimum
amount of resources as soon as a request is received.
Low minimum limits slow the growth of a particular service. High
minimum limits allow rapid growth.