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Resource Management

In designing applications, consideration must be given to the efficient management of system resources. The management of resources such as the database, the storage pool, and the program pool storage affects the performance of online applications since many users may require access to these resources simultaneously.

The following diagram shows the resources used by an application in a non-SQL environment while a task is active and after the task has terminated.

When a Task is Active

After the Task has Terminated

The remainder of this section discusses methods that can be used to monitor the resource consumption of an application and ways in which to utilize available resources efficiently.