“Network I/O Management” reports the following network activities for each Adaptive Server engine:
Total requested network I/Os
Network I/Os delayed
Total tabular data stream (TDS) packets and bytes received and sent
Average size of packets received and sent
This data is broken down by engine, because each engine does its own network I/O. Imbalances are usually caused by one of the following condition:
There are more engines than tasks, so the engines with no work to perform report no I/O, or
Most tasks are sending and receiving short packets, but another task is performing heavy I/O, such as a bulk copy.
