System Performance Tuning (Nutshell Handbooks)

By Mike Loukides

"System Performance Tuning" answers one of the most fundamental questions you can ask about your UNIX-based computer: How can I get it to do more work without buying more hardware? Anyone who has ever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937175609
• ISBN13: 9780937175606
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Incorporated
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

An indispensable place to start.

It is generic and only dated to the extent that there is more information now. The concepts and methods are still sound and can be applied to today's systems. Want to know about SAR? When you time an application, do you want to know what the user-state CPU time and system-state CPU time mean? Many of the pertinent questions and answers to System Performance Tuning are in this book. The chapters are: * Introduction to System Performance * Monitoring System Activity * Managing the Workload * Memory Performance * Disk Performance Issues * Network Performance * Terminal Performance * Kernel Configuration * Appendix A Real-time Processes * Appendix B: A Performance Tuning Strategy This book has helped point to the pertinent manuals on several flavors of UNIX.

A comprehensive, "user friendly" technical sourcebook

Now in a newly revised and expanded second edition, System Performance Tuning by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci (Research Engineer, Performance and Availability Engineering Group, Sun Microsystems) and Mike Loukides (Editor, O'Reilly & Associates) is a comprehensive, "user friendly", technical sourcebook, guide, and reference for UNIX system administrators who seek optimum speed and overall performance. Tacking complex problems for which there are no simple solutions, individual chapters address workflow management, disk arrays, code tuning, and much more. A first-class resource, System Performance Tuning is an invaluable and highly recommended tutorial and continuing reference work.

An excellent guide to system performance and architecture

The second edition brings a well known classic in system administration up to date, focusing on both the theory and principals governing system performance, along with a set of excellent practical examples that can be applied to see immediate results.The book is great for both introductory and advanced administrators, and covers the full gamut of performance, from code to disk to CPU. What is especially refreshing is the focus on practical performance tuning, helping to make tuning you do have maximal benefit for your applications.