Networked Infrastructure Foundations

 ACTIVITY 04 

Complete the following tasks.

1. Use Task Manager in Windows (or equivalent software in MacOS, e.g. Activity Monitor) to view the applications/processes currently running. Identify those that are consuming the most resources (e.g. CPU, memory, disk, network).

2. Start viewing the system performance (e.g. Performance tab in Task Manager) and observe how the CPU and memory usage changes when you play a video (e.g. Youtube) in your web browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox or Safari).

3. Use and explore Performance Monitor in Windows. Try adding some new counters (hint: right click and select “Add Counters…”) and change the colour of their line (hint: right click and select “Properties”). Some counters may be:

a. TCPv4 -> segments/sec

b. Disk Bytes/Transfer

c. Processor

4. [Optional] Document your home, office or lab network by drawing a network diagram and recording key information (e.g. IP addresses, technologies used).