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possible. Since the requests are queued by the Network Driver Interface Specification or NDIS
in this implementation, this length is always set to zero.

Packet Outbound Errors—Number of outbound packets that could not be transmitted because
of errors.

Packet Receive Errors—Number of inbound packets that contained errors preventing them
from being deliverable to a higher-layer protocol.

Current Bandwidth (Mbits/sec)—Estimate of the current bandwidth of the interface in megabits
per second. For interfaces that do not vary in bandwidth or for those where no accurate
estimation can be made, this value is the nominal bandwidth.

Bytes Sent/sec—Rate at which bytes are sent on the interface, including framing characters.

Bytes Received/sec—Rate at which bytes are received on the interface, including framing
characters.

Packets Sent/sec—Rate at which packets are sent on the network interface.

Packets Received/sec—Rate at which packets are received on the network interface.

Physical Disks

Volume—Name of the physical drive for which statistical information is gathered.

Queue Length—Average number of both read and write requests that were queued for the
selected disk during the sample interval.

Disk Busy Time %—Percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk-drive is servicing read
or writes requests.

Processes

Process—Name of the task for which statistical information is gathered.

Threads—Number of threads currently active in this process. An instruction is the basic unit
of execution in a processor, and a thread is the object that executes instructions. Every running
process has at least one thread.

Private Bytes—Current number of bytes this process has allocated that cannot be shared with
other processes.

PageFile Bytes—Current number of bytes this process has used in the paging files. Paging
files are used to store pages of memory used by the process that are not contained in other
files. All processes share paging files and a lack of space in paging files can prevent other
processes from allocating memory.

Working Set—Current number of bytes in the working set of this process. The working set is
the set of memory pages touched recently by the threads in the process. If free memory in the
computer is above a threshold, pages are left in the working set of a process even if they are
not in use. When free memory falls below the threshold, pages are trimmed from working
sets. If they are needed, they are soft-faulted back into the working set before they leave main
memory.

Page Faults/sec—Rate at which the page faults occur in the executing threads within this
process. A page fault occurs when a thread refers to a virtual memory page that is not in its
working set in main memory. This does not cause the page to be fetched from disk if it is on
the standby list and already in main memory, or if it is in use by another process with whom
the page is shared.

% CPU Time—Percentage of elapsed time that all the threads of this process used the processor
to execute instructions. An instruction is the basic unit of execution in a computer, a thread is
the object that executes instructions, and a process is the object created when a program is
run. Code executed to handle some hardware interrupts and trap conditions are included in

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