However some of the features of PCP are also useful for hard performance problems on smaller system configurations.
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The PMDAs know how to collect performance data. PMCD knows how to multiplex messages between the monitoring clients and the PMDAs. Performance Co-Pilot uses a single, comprehensive, data model to describe all available performance data. Metric Information about some activity or resource utilization or quality of service or tuning parameter or configuration. The former are called singular metrics, the latter have an associated instance domain to describe the set for which values exist.