Guide to Updating Plug-ins

7-8 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
To display usage statistics for FileMaker Server, click Usage in the
Remote Administration window.
You see the Usage Statistics window.
The following statistics are listed in the Usage Statistics window:
By default, FileMaker Server updates the statistics in the Usage
Statistics window every 15 seconds or less but no more than once a
second. Although this reduces the overhead required to calculate the
statistics, it means the statistics are approximations of how
FileMaker Server is using resources.
Windows and Mac OS: For information about where usage statistics
are stored and how to display them in a chart, see “Recording usage
statistics and setting size limits” on page 6-12.
Mac OS 8.6 to 9.1: To view usage statistics while working on the
server computer, see “Viewing usage statistics (Mac OS 8.6 to 9.1)”
on page 7-14.
Tip In Mac OS 8.6 to 9.1, you can also collect usage statistics
information by using Apple events. For more information about
Apple events, see the AppleScript Examples folder inside the
FileMaker Server 5.5 folder.
Hosting FileMaker Pro 5.x files
Important FileMaker Server 5.5 supports only FileMaker Pro 5.x
databases. Therefore, any databases you have from a previous
version of FileMaker Pro must be converted to FileMaker Pro 5.x
format before you can host them using FileMaker Server 5.5.
Statistic Description
Transactions/
second
Number of guest requests handled per second.
Network
(Kbytes/sec)
Amount of data being moved across the network or to and
from disk. Data is measured in KB unless network activity is
greater than 10 MB per second. In that case, the value
displayed represents MB per second.
Guests Number of connected guests. Use this information to help
configure the Allow up to n simultaneously connected guests
option (Windows and Mac OS) or the MaxGuests preference
parameter (Red Hat Linux).
Files
Number of open databases. Use this information to
configure the Maximum number of files to host option
(Windows and Mac OS) or the MaxFiles preference
parameter (Red Hat Linux).
Disk (Kbytes/sec) Amount of data being written to disk. Data is measured in
KB unless data written to disk is greater than 10 MB per
second. In that case, the value displayed represents MB per
second.
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Cache Unsaved % Percentage of cache that is currently unsaved. This should be
a relatively low number, such as 0 or 5, so you won’t lose
data if you experience a system crash. If the number is
consistently high, consider increasing the frequency with
which the cache is flushed.
Cache Hit % Percentage of the times FileMaker Server retrieved data
from the cache (RAM) rather than the hard disk. Reading
data from RAM is much more efficient than reading it from
the hard disk, so this value should be a high number, like 90
or 95. If it isn’t, you might need to allocate more memory to
the FileMaker Server database cache.
Statistic Description