At what amount of time do you find running the msiAttach/msiGetStatSample utilities start effecting the performance of the Engine? We have finally moved to a browser utility that provides viewing capabilities only on the statisitics of each thread. The data sample is run every 5 minutes (using cron), converted to XML, then FTP’ed to another server. XSL is used for rendering the HTML accordingly.
We would like to drop the cron job down to a minute or 2 if possible. We are seeing no negative effects at 5 minutes.
Ultimately, we would like to add additional functionality as time warrants. I’ve read other posts about being able to start/stop threads and processes from the browser and would love to be able to do that as well.