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Analysis and Evaluation of the Windows Event Log - Bill Buchanan

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Barrie Codona, BSc (Hons) Network Computing, 2007<br />

Figure 35: Updated Client-Server communications<br />

6.4 Experiment 1: Performance<br />

This experiment will be used to measure <strong>the</strong> performance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> application; it will<br />

also measure <strong>the</strong> load that it places on <strong>the</strong> system.<br />

A simple application (see Figure 36) was developed that would poll <strong>the</strong> processor<br />

every 100 milliseconds <strong>and</strong> return its value as a percentage. This data along with <strong>the</strong><br />

current system time is <strong>the</strong>n displayed on screen; <strong>the</strong> system time is used so that <strong>the</strong><br />

data can be cross referenced to <strong>the</strong> event log data. An option is given for <strong>the</strong> user to<br />

save this information to a text file, so that it can easily be imported into a spreadsheet<br />

application to produce a graphical analysis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> results.<br />

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