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Measures reported by MsSqlCacheTest
This internal test monitors the usage of buffer memory
of a Microsoft SQL Server. The measures
made by this test are as
follows:
| Measurement |
Description |
Measurement
Unit |
Interpretation |
| Cache_hit_ratio
|
This value
indicates the percentage of pages found in the cache without having to
read from disk. |
Percent
|
The ratio is the
total number of cache hits divided by the total number of cache
lookups since SQL Server was started. Because reading from the cache
is less expensive than reading from disk, you want the ratio to be
high. The higher this value is, the better. Generally, you can
increase the cache hit ratio by increasing the amount of memory
available to the SQL Server.
The detailed diagnosis capability, if enabled, provides the cache
hit ratio for each cache type.
|
| Cache_object_count |
This value
indicates the number of objects found in the cache currently. |
Number
|
The higher the
count, the better the performance of the server, as it does not need
to read the requested object from disk.
The detailed diagnosis capability, if enabled, provides the object
count for each cache type.
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| Log_cache_hit_ratio
|
This value
indicates the percentage of log cache reads satisfied from the log
cache. |
Percent
|
A good cache hit
ratio indicates that the log cache is performing well and a low value
indicates that the server needs to be tuned. |
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