I built a (set of) program(s) that communicates with another database server. The program both reads and writes large amounts of data. I would like to be able to test which hardware specifications are needed to keep the program running smoothly. Other applications that make use of the other database server must respond smoothly as well (big processing cues/buffers are inconvenient). How to test for this? 100% CPU or memory is not necessarily a problem is it? Unless other processes need the resources. Is there a way to monitor the performance? See were bottlenecks are?