For back-of-the-envelop capacity planning, it is nice to have a relative speed rating for various processors. You would like to be able to say with confidence that a given processor-bound workload running on machine A running at 400 MHz will execute in 1/3 the time on processor B running at 1.2 GHz that is 3 [...]

Situation:
Performance Sentry Administration is used to assign Data Collection Sets (DCSs) to machines running the data collection service.  An administrator has two options when assigning data collection sets to machines: The first one is called a Registry DCS and the second a File DCS. The Registry DCS parameters are written to the Registry key: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/DemandTechnology/PerformanceSeNTry/CollectionParameters”

These [...]