System Performance Tuning

It is generic and only dated to the extent that there is 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 systemstate CPU time means 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 [...]

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It is generic and only dated to the extent that there is 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 systemstate CPU time means 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 [...]

I had looked at the first edition of this book many times, but not bought it because of the age of the information At long last a second edition Completely updated, and current Many parts of this book are top notch It does an excellent job of drilling down the process tree, caching processes memory and disk, and the structures of both , and bottlenecks such as latency I learned a lot, and I ve got a fair background in performance tuning.HoweverThe Solaris and Linux part is a joke they could have [...]

I have relied on O Reilly for many UNIX SA topics System Performance Tuning was a very boring read for me It seemed to cover too many topics, none in enough depth I really was eager to learn about the intricacies of the vmstat, iostat, etc commands While the book does discuss them, it sprinkles the use of them throughout the book, and relies very heavily on the Solaris variety of them.I was under the impression that this book would be targeted for seasoned SA s I was very wrong there is no need [...]

This is an excellent book, but, ten years later, it s now woefully out of date It has a heavy emphasis on Solaris, whose use is in steep decline Many of the technologies SCSI, SBus are obsolete Other technologies SSD, SATA, SAS were not practicable at the time There are still useful sections, but it s up to the reader to work out what parts are no longer applicable.Hopefully O Reilly is working on a worthy successor.