System Performance Tuning

by Mike Loukides

System Performance Tuning answers one of the most fundamental questions you can ask about your UNIX-based How can I get it to do more work without buying more hardware? Anyone who has ever used a computer has wished that the system was faster, particularly at times when it was under heavy load.If your system gets sluggish when you start a big job, if it feels as if you spend hours waiting for remote file access to complete, if your system stops dead when several users are active at the same time, you need to read this book. Some performance problems do require you to buy a bigger or faster computer, but many can be solved simply by making better use of the resources you already have.Contents

Genres: Computers

332 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1990

Reviews

[Michael Finocchiaro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Despite being somewhat dated now, the O'Reilly on System Performance Tuning is a good generic guide to how to streamline a UNIX system. The writing is not too technical and can be read by non-experts and the advice is still relevant for LINUX. A good introduction to system-level tuning, it remains a classic for geeks.

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.